
Managing Crohn's Disease After Surgery
09/22/22 • 25 min
Drs Peter Higgins and Michael Chiorean discuss risk stratification, monitoring, and treatment of Crohn's disease after surgery.
Relevant disclosures can be found with the episode show notes on Medscape (https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/967627). The topics and discussions are planned, produced, and reviewed independently of advertiser. This podcast is intended only for US healthcare professionals.
Resources
Laparoscopic Ileocaecal Resection Versus Infliximab for Terminal Ileitis in Crohn's Disease: Retrospective Long-term Follow-up of the LIR!C Trial https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langas/article/PIIS2468-1253(20)30117-5/fulltext
Infliximab Reduces Endoscopic, but Not Clinical, Recurrence of Crohn's Disease After Ileocolonic Resection https://www.gastrojournal.org/article/S0016-5085(16)00293-6/fulltext?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fpubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2F
Crohn's Disease Management After Intestinal Resection: A Randomised Trial https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(14)61908-5.pdf
Controlled Trial of Metronidazole Treatment for Prevention of Crohn's Recurrence After Ileal Resection https://www.gastrojournal.org/article/0016-5085(95)90121-3/pdf?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fpubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2F
Metronidazole https://reference.medscape.com/drug/flagyl-metronidazole-342566
Nitroimidazoles https://reference.medscape.com/drugs/nitroimidazoles
Ciprofloxacin for the Prevention of Postoperative Recurrence in Patients With Crohn's Disease: A Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-Controlled Pilot Study https://academic.oup.com/ibdjournal/article/19/5/1073/4603177?login=true
Postoperative Therapy With Infliximab Prevents Long-term Crohn's Disease Recurrence https://www.cghjournal.org/article/S1542-3565(14)00053-6/fulltext
Mesalamine https://reference.medscape.com/drug/asacol-hd-pentasa-mesalamine-342074
Infliximab https://reference.medscape.com/drug/remicade-inflectra-infliximab-343202
Infliximab, Azathioprine, or Combination Therapy for Crohn's Disease https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa0904492
Adalimumab https://reference.medscape.com/drug/amjevita-humira-adalimumab-343187
What Is the Role of Fecal Calprotectin Levels in the Diagnosis of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)? https://www.medscape.com/answers/179037-54913/what-is-the-role-of-fecal-calprotectin-levels-in-the-diagnosis-of-inflammatory-bowel-disease-ibd
P115 Monitoring Faecal Calprotectin at 3 Months Post-Surgery Is Useful to Predict Further Postoperative Endoscopic Recurrence in Crohn's Disease https://academic.oup.com/ecco-jcc/article/13/Supplement_1/S145/5300800
Ustekinumab https://reference.medscape.com/drug/stelara-ustekinumab-345050
Drs Peter Higgins and Michael Chiorean discuss risk stratification, monitoring, and treatment of Crohn's disease after surgery.
Relevant disclosures can be found with the episode show notes on Medscape (https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/967627). The topics and discussions are planned, produced, and reviewed independently of advertiser. This podcast is intended only for US healthcare professionals.
Resources
Laparoscopic Ileocaecal Resection Versus Infliximab for Terminal Ileitis in Crohn's Disease: Retrospective Long-term Follow-up of the LIR!C Trial https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langas/article/PIIS2468-1253(20)30117-5/fulltext
Infliximab Reduces Endoscopic, but Not Clinical, Recurrence of Crohn's Disease After Ileocolonic Resection https://www.gastrojournal.org/article/S0016-5085(16)00293-6/fulltext?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fpubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2F
Crohn's Disease Management After Intestinal Resection: A Randomised Trial https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(14)61908-5.pdf
Controlled Trial of Metronidazole Treatment for Prevention of Crohn's Recurrence After Ileal Resection https://www.gastrojournal.org/article/0016-5085(95)90121-3/pdf?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fpubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2F
Metronidazole https://reference.medscape.com/drug/flagyl-metronidazole-342566
Nitroimidazoles https://reference.medscape.com/drugs/nitroimidazoles
Ciprofloxacin for the Prevention of Postoperative Recurrence in Patients With Crohn's Disease: A Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-Controlled Pilot Study https://academic.oup.com/ibdjournal/article/19/5/1073/4603177?login=true
Postoperative Therapy With Infliximab Prevents Long-term Crohn's Disease Recurrence https://www.cghjournal.org/article/S1542-3565(14)00053-6/fulltext
Mesalamine https://reference.medscape.com/drug/asacol-hd-pentasa-mesalamine-342074
Infliximab https://reference.medscape.com/drug/remicade-inflectra-infliximab-343202
Infliximab, Azathioprine, or Combination Therapy for Crohn's Disease https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa0904492
Adalimumab https://reference.medscape.com/drug/amjevita-humira-adalimumab-343187
What Is the Role of Fecal Calprotectin Levels in the Diagnosis of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)? https://www.medscape.com/answers/179037-54913/what-is-the-role-of-fecal-calprotectin-levels-in-the-diagnosis-of-inflammatory-bowel-disease-ibd
P115 Monitoring Faecal Calprotectin at 3 Months Post-Surgery Is Useful to Predict Further Postoperative Endoscopic Recurrence in Crohn's Disease https://academic.oup.com/ecco-jcc/article/13/Supplement_1/S145/5300800
Ustekinumab https://reference.medscape.com/drug/stelara-ustekinumab-345050
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Drs Peter Higgins and Bram Verstockt discuss breaking the therapeutic ceiling in Crohn's disease and the differential effectiveness of therapies and phenotypes in identifying responses to treatment.
Relevant disclosures can be found with the episode show notes on Medscape (https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/967626). The topics and discussions are planned, produced, and reviewed independently of advertiser. This podcast is intended only for US healthcare professionals.
Resources
Crohn's Disease https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/172940-overview
A Blood-Based Prognostic Biomarker in IBD https://gut.bmj.com/content/68/8/1386
Role of the IL23/IL17 Pathway in Crohn's Disease https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8042267/
A Study of Efficacy and Safety of Combination Therapy With Guselkumab and Golimumab in Participants With Moderately to Severely Active Ulcerative Colitis (VEGA) https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03662542
Results of Novel Clinical Study Show Adults With Moderately to Severely Active Ulcerative Colitis Achieved Higher Rates of Clinical Response, Clinical Remission, and Endoscopic Improvement at 12 Weeks With Guselkumab and Golimumab Combination Therapy Versus Either Monotherapy Alone https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/results-of-novel-clinical-study-show-adults-with-moderately-to-severely-active-ulcerative-colitis-achieved-higher-rates-of-clinical-response-clinical-remission-and-endoscopic-improvement-at-12-weeks-with-guselkumab-and-golimumab-301486054.html
Digestive Disease Week 2022 https://ddw.org/
Triple Combination Therapy in High Risk Crohn's Disease (CD) https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02764762
Anti-TNF and Crohn's Disease: When Should We Stop? http://www.eurekaselect.com/article/15866
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