New Treatment for Primary Biliary Cholangitis

Another treatment is emerging for biliary cholangitis (PBC):  C Corpechot et al (NEJM 2018; 378: 2171-81) shows that an inexpensive medication, bezafibrate, is effective in patients with PBC who have not responded adequately to ursodeoxycholic acid. An associated editorial (2234-35 by Elizabeth Carey) notes that this medication is not available in the U.S., though a similar medicine, fenofibrate “has shown similar efficacy” in PBC (off-label).