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Serious infections in patients with inflammatory bowel disease receiving anti-tumor-necrosis-factor-alpha therapy: an Australian and New Zealand experience.

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The aim of this study was to examine the Australian/New Zealand experience of serious infections and TB in IBD patients receiving anti‐TNF‐α therapy from 1999–2009.
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Ian C Lawrance, Graham L Radford-Smith, Peter A Bampton, Jane M Andrews, Pok-Kern Tan, Anthony Croft, Richard B Gearry and Timothy H J Florin

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Nested case-control study on risk factors for opportunistic infections in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

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What is left when anti-tumour necrosis factor therapy in inflammatory bowel diseases fails?

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TL;DR: This report presents a rare case of gastrointestinal mucormycosis following treatment with corticosteroids in the setting of inflammatory bowel disease.
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Maintenance infliximab for Crohn's disease: the ACCENT I randomised trial

TL;DR: Patients with Crohn's disease who respond to an initial dose of infliximab are more likely to be in remission at weeks 30 and 54, to discontinue corticosteroids, and to maintain their response for a longer period of time, if inflIXimab treatment is maintained every 8 weeks.
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Tuberculosis associated with infliximab, a tumor necrosis factor alpha-neutralizing agent

TL;DR: Infliximab is a humanized antibody against tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α) that is used in the treatment of Crohn's disease and rheumatoid arthritis but there is no direct evidence of a protective role of TNF- α in patients with tuberculosis.
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Adalimumab for maintenance of clinical response and remission in patients with Crohn's disease: the CHARM trial.

TL;DR: Adalimumab was well-tolerated, with a safety profile consistent with previous experience with the drug, and was significantly more effective than placebo in maintaining remission in moderate to severe CD through 56 weeks.
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