[Mucosal healing in different intestinal segments in patients receiving infliximab treatment for small bowel Crohn's disease]

Nan Fang Yi Ke Da Xue Xue Bao. 2017 Jan 20;37(1):44-48. doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-4254.2017.01.08.
[Article in Chinese]

Abstract

Objective: To evaluate the mucosal healing in the terminal ileum, colon and small bowel in patients receiving infliximab treatment for small bowel Crohn's disease (SBCD).

Methods: The clinical data of 18 patients with SBCD treated with infliximab were analyzed for laboratory findings (routine blood tests, C-reative protein, and albumin), Crohn's disease activity index (CDAI), Lewis score (LS), Crohn's disease simplified endoscopic score (SES-CD) and adverse effects before and after 30 weeks of infliximab treatment.

Results: SES-CD, LS, CDAI and CRP were all decreased significantly, but the body mass index and albumin were significantly increased in the 18 patients after 30 weeks of IFX treatment. Sixteen (88.9%) of the patients were in clinical remission, 10 (58.8%) showed terminal ileum and colonic mucosal healing, 4 (22.2%) showed small bowel mucosal healing, and 3 (17.6%) were in deep remission. The 4 patients with small bowel mucosal healing all showed terminal ileum and colon mucosal healing, and 6 patients with terminal ileum and colon mucosal healing did not show small bowel mucosal healing.

Conclusion: Infliximab treatment can effectively reduce inflammatory activity, induce and maintain clinical remission of SBCD and achieve mucosal healing; small bowel mucosal healing occurs later than terminal ileum and colonic mucosal healing, indicating the importance of small bowel mucosal healing in efficacy analysis of the treatment.

目的: 探讨小肠受累的克罗恩病(CD)患者使用英夫利西单抗(IFX)治疗第30周回末及结肠和小肠黏膜愈合情况。

方法: 回顾性分析了18例接受IFX治疗的小肠受累CD患者的临床资料。观察治疗前和治疗后第30周时患者实验室指标(血常规、CRP、白蛋白)、克罗恩病活动度指数、胶囊内镜Lewis评分、克罗恩病简化内镜评分及不良反应的情况。

结果: 与治疗前相比,治疗后第30周18例小肠CD患者的内镜下克罗恩病简化内镜评分、Lewis评分、克罗恩病活动度指数评分、C反应蛋白均显著下降,体质量指数和白蛋白明显升高。临床缓解率为88.9%(16/18),回末及结肠黏膜愈合率58.8%(10/17,1例患者治疗后未复查结肠镜),小肠黏膜愈合率22.2%(4/18),深度缓解率17.6%(3/17)。在IFX治疗第30周,4例小肠黏膜愈合者回末及结肠黏膜均达到愈合,而回末及大肠黏膜愈合而小肠黏膜未愈合者6例。

结论: IFX可有效诱导和维持小肠CD患者的临床缓解及黏膜愈合,减轻炎性活动。小肠黏膜愈合滞后于回末及结肠的黏膜愈合。小肠CD治疗疗效评价除关注回末及结肠的黏膜愈合外,还应结合小肠黏膜愈合情况。

MeSH terms

  • Colonic Diseases / drug therapy*
  • Crohn Disease / drug therapy*
  • Gastrointestinal Agents / therapeutic use*
  • Humans
  • Ileal Diseases / drug therapy*
  • Infliximab / therapeutic use*
  • Intestinal Mucosa / drug effects*
  • Intestine, Small
  • Remission Induction
  • Severity of Illness Index
  • Treatment Outcome

Substances

  • Gastrointestinal Agents
  • Infliximab

Grants and funding

国家自然科学基金(H1609)