New jejunal CD: corticosteroids or anti-TNF

What is known

• In a duodeno-jejunal crohn's series, all patients received steroids for the first attack and 75% required immunosuppression for steroid dependence. ¹
• Case reports of proximal/gastric crohn's describe steroid dependence and osteoporosis prompting transition to infliximab maintenance. ^2,3
• In a pediatric IBD cohort, anemia and corticosteroid use at biologic initiation were markers of more severe disease and predicted biologic discontinuation. ⁴

What is unknown / caveats

• No head-to-head steroid vs anti-TNF induction trial for jejunal/proximal crohn's in the retrieved corpus
• Evidence is case reports and small/pediatric cohorts, not surgical-corpus comparative data
• The corpus is crohn's-surgery focused and does not contain the medical induction-therapy trials needed to answer this directly.

References

1. Andant C, Godeberge B, Chaussade S, Dupas JL, Soulé JC. [Clinical course of symptomatic duodeno-jejunal Crohn's disease]. Gastroenterol Clin Biol. 1999. PMID: 10651532.

2. Ibrahim SH, Smyrk TC, Faubion WA. Treatment of isolated gastric Crohn's disease with inhaled corticosteroids. Case Rep Gastroenterol. 2008. PMID: 21490870.

3. Racz JM, Davies W. Severe stricturing Crohn's disease of the duodenum: A case report and review of surgical options. Int J Surg Case Rep. 2012;3(7):242-5. PMID: 22503915.

4. Kaplan JL, Liu C, King EC, Bass JA, Patel AS, Tung J, Chen S, Lissoos T, Candela N, Saeed S, Colletti RB, for the ImproveCareNow N. Use, Durability, and Risks for Discontinuation of Initial and Subsequent Biologics in a Large Pediatric-Onset IBD Cohort. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2023. PMID: 36804501.

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