Exclusive enteral nutrition with concomitant early thiopurine use was effective in maintaining steroid-free remission in a Southeast Asian cohort of children with Crohn’s disease

BACKGROUND: Exclusive enteral nutrition (EEN) is as effective as corticosteroids in inducing remission in children with Crohn’s disease (CD). However, over 50% of these children relapse by 12 months of diagnosis. Thiopurines are commonly prescribed as maintenance therapy for CD, but evidence for its...

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Autores principales: Ong, Christina, Lim, Poh Ting, Logarajah, Veena, Liwanag, Maria Janelle, Ang, Bi Xia, Cher, Yuqin, Chiou, Fang Kuan, Kader, Ajmal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6292012/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30541458
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12876-018-0907-7

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