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Impact of thiopurines and anti-tumour necrosis factor therapy on hospitalisation and long-term surgical outcomes in ulcerative colitis.

Alexakis, C; Pollok, RC (2015) Impact of thiopurines and anti-tumour necrosis factor therapy on hospitalisation and long-term surgical outcomes in ulcerative colitis. World J Gastrointest Surg, 7 (12). pp. 360-369. ISSN 1948-9366 https://doi.org/10.4240/wjgs.v7.i12.360
SGUL Authors: Pollok, Richard Charles G

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Abstract

Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a chronic inflammatory condition affecting the large bowel and is associated with a significant risk of both requirement for surgery and the need for hospitalisation. Thiopurines, and more recently, anti-tumour necrosis factor (aTNF) therapy have been used successfully to induce clinical remission. However, there is less data available on whether these agents prevent long-term colectomy rates or the need for hospitalisation. The focus of this article is to review the recent and pertinent literature on the long-term impact of thiopurines and aTNF on long-term surgical and hospitalisation rates in UC. Data from population based longitudinal research indicates that thiopurine therapy probably has a protective role against colectomy, if used in appropriate patients for a sufficient duration. aTNF agents appear to have a short term protective effect against colectomy, but data is limited for longer periods. Whereas there is insufficient evidence that thiopurines affect hospitalisation, evidence favours that aTNF therapy probably reduces the risk of hospitalisation within the first year of use, but it is less clear on whether this effect continues beyond this period. More structured research needs to be conducted to answer these clinically important questions.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: ©The Author(s) 2015. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved. This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Keywords: Admission, Anti-tumour necrosis factor, Azathioprine, Colectomy, Hospitalisation, Immunomodulator, Surgery, Thiopurine, Ulcerative colitis
SGUL Research Institute / Research Centre: Academic Structure > Infection and Immunity Research Institute (INII)
Journal or Publication Title: World J Gastrointest Surg
ISSN: 1948-9366
Language: eng
Dates:
DateEvent
27 December 2015Published
10 November 2015Accepted
Publisher License: Creative Commons: Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0
PubMed ID: 26730281
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URI: https://openaccess.sgul.ac.uk/id/eprint/109402
Publisher's version: https://doi.org/10.4240/wjgs.v7.i12.360

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