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ArticleGastroenterology & hepatology2019

Etiology and Management of Lack or Loss of Response to Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor Therapy in Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

Sean Fine, Kostantinos Papamichael, Adam S Cheifetz

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Article in Gastroenterology & hepatology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 78 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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78 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Sean FineDr Fine is director of the Center for Inflammatory Bowel Disease at Brown Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Dr Papamichael is a research fellow in the Division of Gastroenterology at Beth-Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr Cheifetz is director of the Center for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases at Beth-Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Kostantinos PapamichaelDr Fine is director of the Center for Inflammatory Bowel Disease at Brown Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Dr Papamichael is a research fellow in the Division of Gastroenterology at Beth-Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr Cheifetz is director of the Center for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases at Beth-Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Adam S CheifetzDr Fine is director of the Center for Inflammatory Bowel Disease at Brown Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Dr Papamichael is a research fellow in the Division of Gastroenterology at Beth-Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr Cheifetz is director of the Center for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases at Beth-Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Funding

RESEARCH TRAINING IN GASTROENTEROLOGYT32DK007760 · NIDDK · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI KELLY, CIARAN P · 1999 to 2019
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NIDDK NIH HHS T32 DK007760
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The management of patients with moderate to severe inflammatory bowel disease was transformed with the arrival of anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF) therapy. Nevertheless, a considerable number of patients do not respond to anti-TNF induction therapy (primary nonresponse) or lose response to treatment over time after initially experiencing clinical improvement (secondary loss of response). Studies suggest that these outcomes are often due to inadequate drug concentrations. Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) is a practical tool that can be used to better define the etiologies of and help manage primary nonresponse or secondary loss of response. Proactive TDM, or drug titration to a target trough concentration, can improve the efficacy of anti-TNF treatment and lead to favorable clinical outcomes. However, in patients with adequate anti-TNF drug concentrations and active disease, alternate pathways of inflammation (not driven by TNFa agents) are at play, and therapies with another mechanism of action should be employed.

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antidrug antibodyPrimary nonresponsesecondary loss of responsetherapeutic drug monitoring

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PMID31892912
PMCPMC6935028

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