Response pattern recognition in paediatric Crohn's disease patients treated with enteral nutrition
| Autor: | V. Wewer, L. Skafte, N. Kjaersgaard Nielsen, A. Paerregaard |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Crohn's disease business.industry Gastroenterology Time to relapse Pattern recognition General Medicine Patient data medicine.disease Enteral administration Parenteral nutrition Median time Internal medicine Partial response Medicine Artificial intelligence business Paediatric patients |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Crohn's and Colitis. 2:233-236 |
| ISSN: | 1873-9946 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.crohns.2008.03.003 |
| Popis: | Aim To describe the response pattern to enteral nutrition (EN) in paediatric patients with moderately to severely active Crohn's disease (CD). Material and methods A previously described method for assessment of response pattern to various treatments for CD was used. Patients who received EN during the 10-year period 1995–2005 were prospectively registered. Patient data, clinical outcome, time to relapse and subsequent need for treatment were extracted from the files. Four weeks treatment with polymeric ready-to-use liquid formula was given. The clinical outcome was assessed by pattern recognition of the disease course 30 days (immediate response) and 90 days (long-term response) after start of EN. Results Thirty-one patients (17/14 M/F), median age 14 years (range 7.5 –19.8 years), received 46 courses of EN. Thirty-seven courses (80%) were completed. Immediate response: twenty-five courses (67%) led to complete response (CR), 8 (22%) to partial response (PR) and in 4 courses (11%) no response (NR) was achieved. Long-term response: 21 courses (64%) led to prolonged response (PRO), defined as either maintenance of complete response (CR) or partial response (PR), while 12 courses (36%) were followed by loss of response (LR). The median time to relapse was 8.3 months (range 0.5–39 months). Conclusion We found our model of response pattern to be a useful instrument for the description of results obtained during EN in children with CD. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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