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Anti‐tuberculous therapy for maintenance of remission in Crohn's disease

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Title
Anti‐tuberculous therapy for maintenance of remission in Crohn's disease
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Cochrane database of systematic reviews, July 2016
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd000299.pub3
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Petrease H Patton, Claire E Parker, John K MacDonald, Nilesh Chande

Abstract

There have been a number of studies with conflicting results which have examined the effect of anti-tuberculous therapy in Crohn's disease. A meta-analysis was performed to evaluate the use of anti-tuberculous therapy for the maintenance of remission in Crohn's disease. To evaluate the effects of anti-tuberculous therapy for the maintenance of remission in patients with Crohn's disease. We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, the Cochrane LIbrary, and the Cochrane IBD Group Specialized Register from inception to June 22, 2015. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of anti-tuberculous therapy compared to placebo or another active therapy in patients with quiescent Crohn's disease were considered for inclusion. At least two authors independently extracted data and assessed the quality of included studies using the Cochrane risk of bias tool. We calculated the risk ratio (RR) and corresponding 95% confidence interval (CI) for dichotomous outcomes.. The primary outcome was relapse. Secondary outcomes included adverse events, withdrawals due to adverse events and serious adverse events. All data were analyzed on an intention-to-treat basis. The overall quality of the evidence supporting the primary and secondary outcomes was evaluated using the GRADE criteria. Four placebo-controlled RCTs including 206 participants were included. Three trials included an 8 to 16 week induction phase with tapering corticosteroids (prednisone, prednisolone or methylprednisolone) as induction therapy. Anti-tuberculous therapy included monotherapy with clofazimine, combination therapy with clofazimine, rifampin, ethambutol, and dapsone or combination therapy with clarithromycin, rifabutin and clofazimine. All of the studies were rated as unclear risk of bias for allocation concealment, three were rated as unclear risk of bias for random sequence generation and two were rated as unclear risk of bias for blinding or participants and personnel. There was a statistically significant difference in relapse rates favoring anti-tuberculous therapy over placebo. Thirty-nine per cent (44/112) of patients in the anti-tuberculous therapy group relapsed at 9 months to 2 years compared to 67% (63/94) of placebo patients (RR 0.58, 95% CI 0.45 to 0.75, I(2) = 47%). A GRADE analysis indicates that the overall quality of the evidence supporting this outcome was very low due to unknown risk of bias and sparse data. Adverse events occurred more frequently in the anti-tuberculous therapy group (37/159) compared to the placebo group (14/163) with a pooled RR of 2.57 (95% CI 1.45 to 4.55; N=322; studies=4, I(2)=64%). A GRADE analysis indicates that the overall quality of the evidence supporting this outcome was very low due to unknown risk of bias, unexplained heterogeneity and sparse data. There was no difference in withdrawals due to adverse events. Nine per cent (14/159) of anti-tuberculous therapy patients withdrew due to adverse events compared to 7% (11/163) of placebo patients (RR 1.29, 95% CI 0.60 to 2.77, I(2) = 0%). Common adverse events included increased skin pigmentation and rashes. No serious adverse events were reported in any of the included studies. Anti-tuberculous therapy may provide a benefit over placebo for the prevention of relapse in participants with Crohn's disease in remission. However, this result is very uncertain due to unclear study quality and the small numbers of patients assessed. Further studies are needed to provide better quality evidence for the use of anti-tuberculous therapy for maintaining remission in people with quiescent Crohn's disease.

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Qatar 1 <1%
Unknown 127 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 19 15%
Researcher 17 13%
Student > Bachelor 10 8%
Other 9 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 6%
Other 28 22%
Unknown 38 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 41 32%
Nursing and Health Professions 9 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 7 5%
Computer Science 6 5%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 5 4%
Other 19 15%
Unknown 42 33%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 July 2021.
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#6,905,222
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Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#8,040
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#109,523
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Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#162
of 239 outputs
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