Adding OCALIVA
OCALIVA enhances the treatment of PBC
If you have primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), you may already be taking ursodiol (also called ursodeoxycholic acid or UDCA) to slow or stop liver damage. But some people with PBC don’t respond adequately to treatment with UDCA. Is your ALP (alkaline phosphatase) level as low as it could be? Ask your doctor, because a higher-than-normal ALP level could mean an increased risk of liver damage.
OCALIVA® (obeticholic acid) is an add-on* treatment that can work to reduce ALP levels even more than ursodiol alone.
Most people who added OCALIVA to ursodiol saw their ALP level lowered by more than 15%.†‡
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Taking OCALIVA with ursodiol
- Adding OCALIVA to ursodiol can help lower ALP
- After 1 year of treating PBC with ursodiol alone, a routine blood test can determine whether it’s working adequately. If not, another option may be able to help
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Taking OCALIVA alone
- Some people with PBC are unable to tolerate ursodiol and require a different treatment option
- For people who are unable to tolerate ursodiol, OCALIVA can be taken alone
- *OCALIVA is a prescription medicine used to treat PBC in combination with UDCA in adults who have not responded well enough to UDCA, or alone for adults who cannot tolerate UDCA.
- †In a study of OCALIVA, all participants with PBC were taking ursodiol for at least 12 months or were unable to tolerate ursodiol and did not receive it for at least 3 months.
- ‡In a clinical study testing the effectiveness of OCALIVA, patients showed a reduction in the level of the liver enzyme ALP. There is no clinical information currently available to show if patients treated with OCALIVA live longer or if their symptoms improve. There are ongoing studies to find out how OCALIVA works over a longer period of time.
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“My trick to taking OCALIVA is just do it at the same time and the same place every day.”
Rosalía, a person living with PBC
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