About this trial
To study the efficacy of different biological treatment on patient with inflammatory bowel disease after one year of treatment in upper egypt
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
1) Age ≥ 18 years; 2) Patients with moderate-to-severe ulcerative colitis, defined as a clinical Mayo score >6 with an endoscopic score of 2-3 3) Patients with moderate-to-severe Crohn's disease, defined as a Crohn's Disease Activity Index (CDAI) >220 with a Simple Endoscopic Score for Crohn's Disease (SES-CD) ≥7 4) Patients receiving adalimumab, infliximab, ustekinumab, or vedolizumab; 5) Patients who had been on the current biologic therapy for between 6 weeks and 12 months; and 6) Biologic-naïve patients (no prior biologic therapy). Patients who did not continue their treatment for 12 months due to primary or secondary treatment failure will be considered not to have achieved endoscopic remission. Additionally, patients who were hospitalized, received corticosteroids, or underwent surgery due to medication failure before 12 months of therapy will be considered treatment failures.
Disqualifiers
Patients with prior biologic therapy (biologic-experienced);
Patients with incomplete outcome or therapy data;
Patients receiving other concomitant biologic or small-molecule therapies for other conditions, such as rheumatological diseases;
Pregnant patients;
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- adalimumab, infliximab, ustekinumab, golimumab, and vedolizumab