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CURRENT OPINION IN GASTROENTEROLOGY
Volume 33, Issue 4, Pages 246-253Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/MOG.0000000000000361
Keywords
biologics; colectomy; inflammatory bowel disease; surgery
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- Merck
- Abbvie
- Janssen
- Genentech
- Mitsubishi
- Ferring
- Norgine
- Tillots
- Vifor
- Therakos
- Pharmacosmos
- Pilege
- BMS
- UCB-pharma
- Hospira
- Celltrion
- Takeda
- Biogaran
- Boerhinger-Ingelheim
- Lilly
- Pfizer
- HAC-Pharma
- Index Pharmaceuticals
- Amgen
- Sandoz
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Purpose of reviewThe aim of this review is to summarize data regarding surgical trends in inflammatory bowel disease in the prebiologic and biologic era, with a focus on population-based studies and randomized controlled trials (RCTs).Recent findingsThere is paucity of data in RCTs regarding surgical rates, with only a few clinical trials reporting them. From the available data, meta-analyses of RCTs have concluded that antitumor necrosis agents (anti-TNF) reduce surgical rates in ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. A large body of evidence from population-based studies from different regions of the world is available to evaluate surgical trends before and after the introduction of anti-TNF agents. The risk of surgery decreased significantly over the past six decades; these decreasing trends continued in the biologic era, which might indicate a potential beneficial disease-modifying effect of biologics. There is lack of data with nonanti-TNF biologics (i.e. anti-integrins and ustekinumab) regarding the risk of surgery.SummaryAlthough data from population-based studies and available RCTs suggest a protective effect from surgery of anti-TNF agents, definitive conclusions should be drawn only when more disease-modifying trials with different biologics and treatment strategies become available.
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