The second European evidence-based Consensus on the diagnosis and management of Crohn's disease: Current management
The second European evidence-based Consensus on the diagnosis and management of Crohn's disease: Current management
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DOI:
10.1016/j.crohns.2009.12.002
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发表时间:
2010-02-01
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8
通讯作者:
Travis, S. P. L.
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作者:
Dignass, A.;Van Assche, G.;Travis, S. P. L.
The management plan for a patient with Crohn's disease should take into account the activity, site and behaviour of disease, and should always be discussed with the patient. Determining the activity of disease may be more difficult in Crohn's disease than ulcerative colitis, since symptoms (such as pain or diarrhoea) may be due to causes other than active disease. Therefore, alternative explanations for symptoms such as enteric infection, and abscess, bacterial overgrowth, bile salt malabsorption, dysmotility (IBS), or gall stones should always be considered. Iron deficiency anaemia should be identified and treated, since it may explain symptoms of fatigue or lethargy. Some treatment decisions may have to be made without knowing the full distribution of disease, especially in those patients with severe disease. Experience has shown that clinicians are often poor judges of disease activity; therefore objective evidence of disease activity should be obtained (inflammatory markers or colonoscopy as appropriate) before starting or changing medical therapy. This concept is supported by the Study of Biologic and Immunomodulator Naive Patients in Crohn's Disease (SONIC), in which the benefit of therapy was significantly higher in those patients with endoscopic evidence of active disease at entry to the trial. 1The appropriate choice of medication is influenced by the balance between drug potency and potential side-effects; previous response to treatment (especially when considering treatment of a relapse, or treatment for steroid-dependent or-refractory disease); and the presence of extraintestinal manifestations or complications. Different preparations are released at different sites and may have local activity (such as mesalazine preparations and budesonide), so the choice is best tailored to the individual patient. It is important to remember that one option for selected patients with mild disease would be to start no active treatment, as in a systematic review of clinical trials, 18%(95% CI 14–24%) of patients entered remission when receiving placebo alone. 2 Thus it is clearly important to involve patients in all therapeutic decisions.