Efficacy of infliximab in treatment-naïve patients with stricturing small bowel Crohn's disease.

Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology
Bing-Xia ChenFa-Chao Zhi

Abstract

The efficacy of infliximab in treatment-naïve patients with stricturing small bowel Crohn's disease (CD) has not been well studied. We aimed to evaluate the efficacy of infliximab in these patients. This was a retrospective study of all consecutive treatment-naïve patients with newly diagnosed CD with small bowel stricture who started regular infliximab therapy in Nanfang Hospital between January 2015 and December 2019. An effective infliximab therapy was defined as infliximab continuation without the use of steroids, new biologics, endoscopic interventions or intestinal surgery. Seventy-nine patients were included. After a median 38 months follow-up, an effective infliximab therapy was achieved in 37 patients. Long diagnostic delay (hazard ratio [HR] 0.38, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.19-0.78; p= .008), pre-stenotic dilatation (HR 0.17, 95%CI 0.09-0.35; p < .001), long segmental stricture (HR 0.20, 95%CI 0.10-0.41; p < .001), and penetrating disease (HR 0.22, 95%CI 0.10-0.49; p < .001) were negatively correlated with an effective infliximab therapy. Infliximab is effective in nearly 50% of treatment-naïve patients with CD with small bowel stricture, and an effective therapy is more likely to be achieved in patients without l...Continue Reading

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