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2. Ustekinumab as Induction and Maintenance Therapy for Ulcerative Colitis

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Sands, B. E., Sandborn, W. J., Panaccione, R., O'Brien, C. D., Zhang, H., Johanns, J., Adedokun, O. J., Li, K., Peyrin-Biroulet, L., Van Assche, G., Danese, S., Targan, S., Abreu, M. T., Hisamatsu, T., Szapary, P., Brown S, Marano C., Connor, S, De Cruz, P, Ding, Nj, Florin, T, Hendy, P, Leong, R, Moore, G, Pavli, P, Sparrow, M, Gassner, S, Vogelsang, H, Baert, F, Colard, A, De Vos, M, D'Heygere, F, Ferrante, M, Louis, E, Staessen, D, Berova, T, Churchev, J, Draganova, R, Gancheva, D, Ivanova, N, Marinova, I, Markov, M, Nikolov, R, Tsonev, N, Vassileva, G, Afif, W, Berstein, C, Bressler, B, Jairath, V, Lachance, Jr, Singh, R, Tilbe, K, Komarek, V, Kozeluhova, J, Lukas, M, Volfova, M, Dahlerup, J, Altwegg, R, Beorchia, S, Bouguen, G, Cadiot, G, Dupas, Jl, Desreumaux, P, Flourie, B, Grimaud, Jc, Guillaud, O, Moreau, J, Roblin, X, Zerbib, F, Baumgart, D, Beckebaum, S, Bokemeyer, B, Ebert, M, Hasselblatt, P, Lügering, A, Maaser, C, Schiefke, I, Schreiber, S, Seidler, U, Altorjay, I, Kiss, Gg, Literati-Nagy, B, Patai, A, Pecsi, G, Salamon, A, Schnabel, R, Székely, A, Tulassay, Z, Varga, M, Fich, A, Fishman, S, Konikoff, F, Lichtenstein, L, Rainis, T, Sbeit, W, Schwartz, D, Annese, V, Biancone, L, Bossa, F, Costintino, R, Danese, S, Fries, W, Gasbarrini, A, Guidi, L, Kohn, A, Maconi, G, Rocca, R, Rogai, F, Villa, E, Zoli, G, Akiho, H, Aoyama, N, Arisawa, T, Hidaka, H, Hisamatsu, T, Horiki, N, Inaba, T, Inoue, S, Ishida, T, Ishida, H, Ishiguro, Y, Ishihara, S, Iwabuchi, M, Kato, J, Katsushima, S, Kobayashi, T, Kojima, Y, Kurihara, H, Masuo, T, Matsui, T, Matsumoto, T, Matsuoka, K, Mitsuyama, K, Motoya, S, Nakagawa, T, Nakai, K, Nakamura, S, Niihara, T, Ohnishi, Y, Ohta, A, Osada, T, Ryuichi, I, Sakai, Y, Sakata, Y, Sameshima, Y, Sano, K, Shibatoge, M, Shibuya, T, Suzuki, Y, Takeshima, F, Tanaka, S, Taruishi, M, Tokito, S, Ueo, T, Watanabe, K, Yamagami, H, Cheon, Jh, Cho, Kb, Knowles, Kim, Kim, Hj, Kim, Y, Lee, Km, Yang, Sk, D'Haens, G, Pierik, M, Gearry, R, Inns, S, Rowbotham, D, Schultz, M, Bochenek, A, Gawdis-Wojnarska, B, Kleczkowski, D, Leszczyszyn, J, Malecka-Panas, E, Mamos, A, Petryka, R, Regula, J, Rozciecha, J, Stefanuik, P, Wozniak-Stolarska, B, Cimpoeru, N, Craciun, E, Ovidiu, Cf, Goldis, E, Ionita-Radu, F, Lazar, D, Suciu, I, Abdulkhakov, R, Alikhanov, B, Apartsin, K, Bakulin, I, Belousova, E, Gofman, A, Grinevich, V, Kulyapin, A, Nizov, A, Osipenko, M, Simanenkov, V, Tkachev, A, Uspenskiy, Y, Valuyskikh, E, Jovanovic, I, Nagorni, A, Svorcan, P, Zdravkovic, N, Bunganic, I, Abrahamovych, O, Bilianskyi, L, Datsenko, O, Golovchenko, O, Kharchenko, N, Klymenko, V, Levchenko, O, Lozynskyy, Y, Murenets, N, Oliinyk, O, Prystupa, L, Pyrogovskyi, V, Reznikova, V, Rishko, I, Stanislavchuk, M, Vizir, V, Yatsyshyn, R, Arasaradnam, R, Bloom, S, Cummings, F, Iqbal, T, Irving, P, Kaser, A, Shonde, A, Subramanian, S, Aberra, F, Aguilar, H, Araya, V, Bakken, A, Beaulieu, D, Cappa, Ja, Chiorean, M, Cohen, N, Dryden, G, Duvall, G, Ehrlich, A, Eisner, M, Ertan, A, Fogel, R, Friedenberg, K, Gatof, D, Glover, S, Grosman, I, Gunaratnam, N, Gupta, N, Haynes, P, Hemaidan, A, Higgins, P, Hou, J, Hudesman, D, Iskandar, H, Jazrawi, S, Jones, M, Karnam, U, Khurana, S, Killpack, M, Kreines, M, Lawlor, G, Lee, S, Loftus, E, Lukin, Dj, Marcet, J, Mattar, M, Melmed, G, Minor, T, Mirkin, K, Mutlu, E, Nichols, M, Nudell, J, Rai, R, Ramos, C, Mcleod, Randall, Rausher, D, Ritter, T, Singh Saini, S, Salzberg, B, Saubermann, L, Scherl, E, Sedghi, S, Sellin, J, Shafran, I, Sorrentino, D, Suiter, D, Swaminath, A, Tiongco, F, Vrabie, R, Walp, K, Warner, N, Winstead, N, Wolf, Dc, Woods, J, Yen, E, Younes, Z., Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Nancy (CHRU Nancy), Nutrition-Génétique et Exposition aux Risques Environnementaux (NGERE), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Lorraine (UL), Humanitas Clinical and Research Center [Rozzano, Milan, Italy], RS: NUTRIM - R2 - Liver and digestive health, MUMC+: MA Maag Darm Lever (9), Interne Geneeskunde, Sands, Be, Sandborn, Wj, Panaccione, R, O'Brien, Cd, Zhang, H, Johanns, J, Adedokun, Oj, Li, K, Peyrin-Biroulet, L, Van Assche, G, Danese, S, Targan, S, Abreu, Mt, Hisamatsu, T, Szapary, P, and Marano, C

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Adult, Male, Infusions, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Injections, Subcutaneous, Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Ulcerative, Klinikai orvostudományok, Article, Injections, Maintenance Chemotherapy, Dose-Response Relationship, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Double-Blind Method, INFLIXIMAB, Colitis, Ulcerative, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Female, Humans, Induction Chemotherapy, Infusions, Intravenous, Patient Acuity, Remission Induction, Ustekinumab, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, ACTIVITY INDEXES, Subcutaneous, Orvostudományok, General Medicine, EFFICACY, Colitis, 3. Good health, INFECTIONS, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, 030211 gastroenterology & hepatology, Drug, Intravenous
Abstract

The efficacy of ustekinumab, an antagonist of the p40 subunit of interleukin-12 and interleukin-23, as induction and maintenance therapy in patients with ulcerative colitis is unknown.We evaluated ustekinumab as 8-week induction therapy and 44-week maintenance therapy in patients with moderate-to-severe ulcerative colitis. A total of 961 patients were randomly assigned to receive an intravenous induction dose of ustekinumab (either 130 mg [320 patients] or a weight-range-based dose that approximated 6 mg per kilogram of body weight [322]) or placebo (319). Patients who had a response to induction therapy 8 weeks after administration of intravenous ustekinumab were randomly assigned again to receive subcutaneous maintenance injections of 90 mg of ustekinumab (either every 12 weeks [172 patients] or every 8 weeks [176]) or placebo (175). The primary end point in the induction trial (week 8) and the maintenance trial (week 44) was clinical remission (defined as a total score of ≤2 on the Mayo scale [range, 0 to 12, with higher scores indicating more severe disease] and no subscore1 [range, 0 to 3] on any of the four Mayo scale components).The percentage of patients who had clinical remission at week 8 among patients who received intravenous ustekinumab at a dose of 130 mg (15.6%) or 6 mg per kilogram (15.5%) was significantly higher than that among patients who received placebo (5.3%) (P0.001 for both comparisons). Among patients who had a response to induction therapy with ustekinumab and underwent a second randomization, the percentage of patients who had clinical remission at week 44 was significantly higher among patients assigned to 90 mg of subcutaneous ustekinumab every 12 weeks (38.4%) or every 8 weeks (43.8%) than among those assigned to placebo (24.0%) (P = 0.002 and P0.001, respectively). The incidence of serious adverse events with ustekinumab was similar to that with placebo. Through 52 weeks of exposure, there were two deaths (one each from acute respiratory distress syndrome and hemorrhage from esophageal varices) and seven cases of cancer (one each of prostate, colon, renal papillary, and rectal cancer and three nonmelanoma skin cancers) among 825 patients who received ustekinumab and no deaths and one case of cancer (testicular cancer) among 319 patients who received placebo.Ustekinumab was more effective than placebo for inducing and maintaining remission in patients with moderate-to-severe ulcerative colitis. (Funded by Janssen Research and Development; UNIFI ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT02407236.).

Published
2019

3. Golimumab induction and maintenance for moderate to severe ulcerative colitis: results from GO-COLITIS (Golimumab: a Phase 4, UK, open label, single arm study on its utilization and impact in ulcerative Colitis)

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Probert, CSJ, Sebastian, S, Gaya, DR, Hamlin, PJ, Gillespie, G, Rose, A, Tate, H, Wheeler, C, Irving, PM, Probert, C, Gaya, D, Hart, A, Irving, P, Ahmad, T, Pollok, R, Orchard, T, Arasaradnam, R, Iqbal, T, Johnson, M, Kaser, A, Allen, P, Gordon, J, Preston, C, Shenderey, R, Hoque, S, Bloom, S, Ansari, A, Mowat, C, Hamlin, J, Arnott, I, Shaw, I, Steed, H, Butterworth, J, Robinson, A, Mawdsley, J, Creed, T, Cummings, F, and GO-COLITIS Study Grp

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Objective GO-COLITIS aimed to measure the effectiveness of subcutaneous golimumab in tumour necrosis factor-α antagonist–naive patients with moderate to severe ulcerative colitis (UC) despite conventional treatment.\ud \ud Design GO-COLITIS was an open label, single arm, phase 4 study with a pragmatic design which reflected UK clinical practice. Adult patients were eligible if diagnosed with UC ≥3 months, partial Mayo score (PMS) 4–9. Patients received subcutaneous golimumab induction (200 mg initially and 100 mg at week 2) followed at week 6 by 50 mg or 100 mg (depending on weight) every 4 weeks until week 54 with a 12-week follow-up. Efficacy was measured by PMS at baseline, week 6, 30, 54 and 66. Health-related quality of life (HRQoL; Inflammatory Bowel Disease Questionnaire (IBDQ) and EuroQol Group 5 Dimensions Health Questionnaire (EQ-5D)) was assessed at baseline, week 6 and week 54. All safety adverse events (AEs) were recorded.\ud \ud Results 207 patients were enrolled and 205 received golimumab (full analysis set (FAS)205). At week 6, 68.8% (95% CI 62.0% to 75.1%) and 38.5% (95% CI 31.8% to 45.6%) of patients were in response and remission, respectively, using PMS. At the end of the induction phase, 140/141 patients in clinical response continued into the maintenance phase (Maintenance FAS). Sustained clinical response through week 54 was achieved in 51/205 (24.9%) of the FAS205 population and 51/140 (36.4%) of the Maintenance FAS population. Statistically significant improvements from baseline to week 6 were observed for the IBDQ total score and for each IBDQ domain score (bowel symptoms, emotional function, systemic symptoms and social function), as well as the EQ-5D index score and associated visual analogue scale score (p

Published
2018

4. Mercaptopurine versus placebo to prevent recurrence of Crohn's disease after surgical resection (TOPPIC): a multicentre, double-blind, randomised controlled trial

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Mowat, C, Arnott, I, Cahill, A, Smith, M, Ahmad, T, Subramanian, S, Travis, S, Morris, J, Hamlin, J, Dhar, A, Nwokolo, C, Edwards, C, Creed, T, Bloom, S, Yousif, M, Thomas, L, Campbell, S, Lewis, SJ, Sebastian, S, Sen, S, Lal, S, Hawkey, C, Murray, C, Cummings, F, Goh, J, Lindsay, JO, Arebi, N, Potts, L, McKinley, AJ, Thomson, JM, Todd, JA, Collie, M, Dunlop, MG, Mowat, A, Gaya, DR, Winter, J, Naismith, GD, Ennis, H, Keerie, C, Lewis, S, Prescott, RJ, Kennedy, NA, Satsangi, J, and TOPPIC Study Group

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BACKGROUND: Up to 60% of patients with Crohn's disease need intestinal resection within the first 10 years of diagnosis, and postoperative recurrence is common. We investigated whether mercaptopurine can prevent or delay postoperative clinical recurrence of Crohn's disease. METHODS: We did a randomised, placebo-controlled, double-blind trial at 29 UK secondary and tertiary hospitals of patients (aged >16 years in Scotland or >18 years in England and Wales) who had a confirmed diagnosis of Crohn's disease and had undergone intestinal resection. Patients were randomly assigned (1:1) by a computer-generated web-based randomisation system to oral daily mercaptopurine at a dose of 1 mg/kg bodyweight rounded to the nearest 25 mg or placebo; patients with low thiopurine methyltransferase activity received half the normal dose. Patients and their carers and physicians were masked to the treatment allocation. Patients were followed up for 3 years. The primary endpoint was clinical recurrence of Crohn's disease (Crohn's Disease Activity Index >150 plus 100-point increase in score) and the need for anti-inflammatory rescue treatment or primary surgical intervention. Primary and safety analyses were by intention to treat. Subgroup analyses by smoking status, previous thiopurines, previous infliximab or methotrexate, previous surgery, duration of disease, or age at diagnosis were also done. This trial is registered with the International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial Register (ISRCTN89489788) and the European Clinical Trials Database (EudraCT number 2006-005800-15). FINDINGS: Between June 6, 2008, and April 23, 2012, 240 patients with Crohn's disease were randomly assigned: 128 to mercaptopurine and 112 to placebo. All patients received at least one dose of study drug, and no randomly assigned patients were excluded from the analysis. 16 (13%) of patients in the mercaptopurine group versus 26 (23%) patients in the placebo group had a clinical recurrence of Crohn's disease and needed anti-inflammatory rescue treatment or primary surgical intervention (adjusted hazard ratio [HR] 0·54, 95% CI 0·27-1·06; p=0·07; unadjusted HR 0·53, 95% CI 0·28-0·99; p=0·046). In a subgroup analysis, three (10%) of 29 smokers in the mercaptopurine group and 12 (46%) of 26 in the placebo group had a clinical recurrence that needed treatment (HR 0·13, 95% CI 0·04-0·46), compared with 13 (13%) of 99 non-smokers in the mercaptopurine group and 14 (16%) of 86 in the placebo group (0·90, 0·42-1·94; pinteraction=0·018). The effect of mercaptopurine did not significantly differ from placebo for any of the other planned subgroup analyses (previous thiopurines, previous infliximab or methotrexate, previous surgery, duration of disease, or age at diagnosis). The incidence and types of adverse events were similar in the mercaptopurine and placebo groups. One patient on placebo died of ischaemic heart disease. Adverse events caused discontinuation of treatment in 39 (30%) of 128 patients in the mercaptopurine group versus 41 (37%) of 112 in the placebo group. INTERPRETATION: Mercaptopurine is effective in preventing postoperative clinical recurrence of Crohn's disease, but only in patients who are smokers. Thus, in smokers, thiopurine treatment seems to be justified in the postoperative period, although smoking cessation should be strongly encouraged given that smoking increases the risk of recurrence.

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2017

6. Ustekinumab as induction and maintenance therapy for Crohn's disease

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Feagan, Bg, Sandborn, Wj, Gasink, C, Jacobstein, D, Lang, Y, Friedman, Jr, Blank, Ma, Johanns, J, Gao, Ll, Miao, Y, Adedokun, Oj, Sands, Be, Hanauer, Sb, Vermeire, S, Targan, S, Ghosh, S, de Villiers WJ, Colombel, Jf, Tulassay, Z, Seidler, U, Salzberg, Ba, Desreumaux, P, Lee, Sd, Loftus EV Jr, Dieleman, La, Katz, S, Rutgeerts, P, Bampton, P, Chung, A, Connor, S, Debinski, H, Leong, R, Macrae, F, Pavli, P, Sorrentino, D, van den Bogaerde, J, Vogel, W, Vogelsang, H, Louis, E, Mana, F, Zaltman, C, Aumais, G, Bernstein, C, Bressler, B, Dhalla, S, Dieleman, L, Feagan, B, Marshall, J, Panaccione, R, Ropeleski, M, Stehlik, J, Volfova, M, Brynskov, J, Glerup, H, Abitbol-Selinger, V, Allez, M, Beaugerie, L, Bourreille, A, Cadiot, G, Dupas, J, Grimaud, J, Laharie, D, Lerebours, E, Moreau, J, Baumgart, D, Brand, S, Ebert, M, Ehehalt, R, Hasselblatt, P, Howaldt, S, Klaus, J, Krummenerl, P, Kucharzik, T, Lügering, A, Mudter, J, Preiss, J, Schreiber, S, Stallmach, A, Stein, J, Strauch, U, Salamon, A, Patchett, S, Lahat-Zok, A, Rachmilewitz, D, Annese, V, Bossa, F, Guidi, L, Kohn, A, Rocca, R, Ando, A, Ashida, T, Hanai, H, Ishida, T, Ito, H, Matsumoto, T, Motoya, S, Nakamura, S, Sameshima, Y, Suzuki, Y, Watanabe, K, Yamagami, H, Yamamoto, T, Yao, K, Kim, H, Kim, Y, D'Haens, G, Pierik, M, van Bodegraven, A, van der Woude CJ, Gearry, R, Ciecko-Michalska, I, Malecka-Panas, E, Jojic, N, Aboo, N, Wright, J, Arranz, M, Viso, L, Ahmad, T, Bloom, S, Campbell, S, Creed, T, Cummings, F, Hawthorne, B, Iqbal, T, Ireland, A, Parkes, M, Pollok, R, Shaw, I, Shonde, A, Smith, M, Steel, A, Subramanian, S, Travis, S, Tremelling, M, Aberra, F, Abraham, B, Barish, C, Behm, B, Birbara, C, Bochner, R, Bologna, S, Brant, S, Charles, R, Cohen, N, de Villers, W, Dryden, G, Duvall, A, Flasar, M, Fleisher, M, Florez, D, Fogel, R, Gagneja, H, Gross, C, Hamilton, J, Hanauer, S, Hanson, J, Hardi, R, Higgins, P, Isaacs, K, Katz, J, Kaur, N, Khan, N, Lee, S, Leman, B, Levenson, S, Lichtiger, S, Loftus, E, Malik, P, Mcnair, A, Melmed, G, Miner, P, Nichols, M, Noar, M, Oikonomou, I, Oubre, B, Peterson, K, Pruitt, R, Quirk, D, Safdi, A, Safdi, M, Salzberg, B, Sandborn, W, Saubermann, L, Scherl, E, Schwartz, D, Schwarz, R, Sedghi, S, Selby, L, Shafran, I, Siegel, C, Sninsky, C, Stern, M, Stockwell, D, Stone, C, Swaminath, A, Swoger, J, Taormina, M, Williams, E, Winstead, N, Wolf, D, Wolosin, J, Yacyshyn, B, Yajnik, V, Yen, E, Hetzel, D, Muls, V, Bafutto, M, Francesconi, C, Sipahi, A, Steinwurz, F, Churchev, J, Kotzev, I, Marinova, I, Penchev, P, Spassova, Z, Stoinov, S, Takov, D, Vassileva, G, Fowler, S, Greenberg, G, Jones, J, Saibil, F, Salh, B, Banić, M, Duvnjak, M, Stimac, D, Goujon, G, Pelletier, A, Peyrin-Biroulet, L, Aldinger, V, Bokemeyer, B, Büning, C, Konturek, J, Krummenerl, T, Ochsenkuehn, T, Altorjay, I, Kis, J, Pecsi, G, Székely, A, Varga, M, Vincze, A, Wacha, J, Oddsson, E, Orvar, K, Avni-Biron, I, Fishman, S, Fraser, G, Konikoff, F, Melzer, E, Oren, R, Shirin, H, Danese, S, Marino, M, Sturniolo, Gc, Horiki, N, Iijima, H, Iwabuchi, M, Kanai, T, Kunisaki, R, Maemoto, A, Matsuoka, K, Osada, T, Sugimoto, K, Tanaka, S, Cheon, Jh, Han, Ds, Jang, Bi, Kim, Hj, Kim, Js, Kim, Yh, Park, Sj, Yang, Sk, Arnold, M, Claydon, A, Haines, M, Hill, J, Rowbotham, D, Schultz, M, Wallace, I, Bochenek, A, Niezgoda, K, Szura, M, Arutyunov, G, Baranovsky, A, Khalif, I, Osipenko, M, Milinic, N, Bloch, H, Kruger, Fc, Prins, M, Watermeyer, G, Ziady, C, Calvo, Xc, Domínguez-Muñoz, Je, Gisbert, Jp, Arsenescu, R, Beaulieu, D, Bedford, R, Behrend, C, Cleavinger, P, Cohen, J, Ertan, A, Freilich, B, Friedenberg, K, Glover, S, Gordon, G, Gunaratnam, N, Gupta, N, Holbrook, R, Jones, M, Kaufman, B, Khan, Nh, Khurana, S, Legnani, P, Mutlu, E, Phillips, R, Rai, R, Reichelderfer, M, Ritter, T, Safdi, Ma, Sands, B, Schulman, M, Smith, J, Suiter, D, Taylor, D, Vasudeva, R, Winstead, T, Zwick, A, Savoye, G, Atreya, R, Ochsenkuhn, T, Ott, C, Goldin, E, Motohiro, E, Takanori, K, Park, S, James, B, Cummings, J, Tariq, A, Willert, R, Allan, M, Bulat, R, Devilliers, W, Eaker, E, Hou, J, Mendu, S, Nicols, M, Proctor, D, Thosani, N, Zhang, C, and UNITI-IM-UNITI Study Group

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030203 arthritis & rheumatology, Adult, Male, Infusions, Medicine (all), Remission Induction, Crohn Disease, Female, Humans, Induction Chemotherapy, Infusions, Intravenous, Maintenance Chemotherapy, Middle Aged, Ustekinumab, General Medicine, Orvostudományok, Klinikai orvostudományok, 030207 dermatology & venereal diseases, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Intravenous
Abstract

Ustekinumab, a monoclonal antibody to the p40 subunit of interleukin-12 and interleukin-23, was evaluated as an intravenous induction therapy in two populations with moderately to severely active Crohn's disease. Ustekinumab was also evaluated as subcutaneous maintenance therapy.We randomly assigned patients to receive a single intravenous dose of ustekinumab (either 130 mg or approximately 6 mg per kilogram of body weight) or placebo in two induction trials. The UNITI-1 trial included 741 patients who met the criteria for primary or secondary nonresponse to tumor necrosis factor (TNF) antagonists or had unacceptable side effects. The UNITI-2 trial included 628 patients in whom conventional therapy failed or unacceptable side effects occurred. Patients who completed these induction trials then participated in IM-UNITI, in which the 397 patients who had a response to ustekinumab were randomly assigned to receive subcutaneous maintenance injections of 90 mg of ustekinumab (either every 8 weeks or every 12 weeks) or placebo. The primary end point for the induction trials was a clinical response at week 6 (defined as a decrease from baseline in the Crohn's Disease Activity Index [CDAI] score of ≥100 points or a CDAI score150). The primary end point for the maintenance trial was remission at week 44 (CDAI score150).The rates of response at week 6 among patients receiving intravenous ustekinumab at a dose of either 130 mg or approximately 6 mg per kilogram were significantly higher than the rates among patients receiving placebo (in UNITI-1, 34.3%, 33.7%, and 21.5%, respectively, with P≤0.003 for both comparisons with placebo; in UNITI-2, 51.7%, 55.5%, and 28.7%, respectively, with P0.001 for both doses). In the groups receiving maintenance doses of ustekinumab every 8 weeks or every 12 weeks, 53.1% and 48.8%, respectively, were in remission at week 44, as compared with 35.9% of those receiving placebo (P=0.005 and P=0.04, respectively). Within each trial, adverse-event rates were similar among treatment groups.Among patients with moderately to severely active Crohn's disease, those receiving intravenous ustekinumab had a significantly higher rate of response than did those receiving placebo. Subcutaneous ustekinumab maintained remission in patients who had a clinical response to induction therapy. (Funded by Janssen Research and Development; ClinicalTrials.gov numbers, NCT01369329 , NCT01369342 , and NCT01369355 .).

Published
2016

7. Genome-wide and fine-resolution association analysis of malaria in West Africa

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Muminatou, Jallow, Yik Ying Teo, Small, Kerrin S., Rockett, Kirk A., Panos, Deloukas, Clark, Taane G., Katja, Kivinen, Bojang, Kalifa A., Conway, David J., Margaret, Pinder, Giorgio, Sirugo, Fatou Sisay Joof, Stanley, Usen, Sarah, Auburn, Bumpstead, Suzannah J., Susana, Campino, Alison, Coffey, Andrew, Dunham, Fry, Andrew E., Angela, Green, Rhian, Gwilliam, Hunt, Sarah E., Michael, Inouye, Jeffreys, Anna E., Alieu, Mendy, Aarno, Palotie, Simon, Potter, Jiannis, Ragoussis, Jane, Rogers, Kate, Rowlands, Elilan, Somaskantharajah, Pamela, Whittaker, Claire, Widden, Peter, Donnelly, Bryan, Howie, Jonathan, Marchini, Andrew, Morris, Miguel, Sanjoaquin, Eric Akum Achidi, Tsiri, Agbenyega, Angela, Allen, Olukemi, Amodu, Patrick, Corran, Abdoulaye, Djimde, Amagana, Dolo, Doumbo, Ogobara K., Chris, Drakeley, Sarah, Dunstan, Jennifer, Evans, Jeremy, Farrar, Hien Tt, Fernando D., Horstmann, R. D., Ibrahim, M., Karunaweera, N., Kokwaro, G., Koram, K. A., Lemnge, M., Makani, J., Marsh, K., Michon, P., David, Modiano, Molyneux, M. E., Mueller, I., Parker, M., Peshu, N., Plowe, C. V., Puijalon, O., Reeder, J., Reyburn, H., Riley, E. M., Sakuntabhai, A., Singhasivanon, P., Sirima, S., Tall, A., Taylor, T. E., Thera, M., Troye Blomberg, M., Williams, T. N., Wilson, M., Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium Kwiatkowski, D. P., Epidemiology Network: Achidi, Malaria Genomic E. A., Agbenyega, T., Ahmad, T., Alcock, D., Allen, S., Amenga Etego, L., Amodu, O., Apinjoh, T. O., Attwood, A. P., Auburn, S., Ball, S. G., Balmforth, A. J., Ban, M., Barbour, J., Barnwell, D., Barrett, J. C., Barrett, J. H., Barton, A., Bentley, D., Bishop, D. T., Bojang, K., Boorman, J. P., Bougouma, E., Bradbury, L. A., Braga Marcano, C. A., Braund, P. S., Bredin, F., Breen, G., Brown, M. A., Brown, M. J., Bruce, I. N., Bryan, C., Bull, S., Bumpstead, S. J., Burke, B., Burton, P. R., Caesar, S., Campino, S., Cant, B., Cardin, N. J., Cardon, L. R., Carucci, D., Caulfield, M., Chaney, A., Clark, T., Clayton, D. G., Collier, D. A., Compston, A., Compston, D. A., Connell, J., Conway, D., Cook, K., Corran, P., Craddock, N., Cummings, F. R., Davison, D., Deloukas, P., Devries, J., Dewasurendra, R., Diakite, M., Dixon, R. J., Djimde, A., Dobson, R., Dolo, A., Dominiczak, A., Donnelly, P., Donovan, H., Doumbo, O., Downes, K., Doyle, A., Drakeley, C., Drummond, H., Duffy, P., Duncanson, A., Dunger, D. B., Dunstan, S., Duombo, O., Easton, D., Elkin, A., Elliott, K. S., Elzein, A., Enimil, A., Evans, D., Evans, J., Everson, U., Eyre, S., Farmer, A., Farrall, M., Farrar, C., Farrar, J., Fernando, D., Ferreira, T., Ferrier, I. N., Fisher, S. A., Fitzpatrick, K., Forbes, A., Franklyn, J. A., Fraser, C., Frayling, T. M., Freathy, R. M., Ghansah, A., Ghori, J., Gilbert, P. D., Gordon Smith, K., Goris, A., Gottlieb, M., Gough, S. C., Green, A., Green, E. K., Groves, C. J., Grozeva, D., Gungadoo, J., Gwilliam, R., Hall, A. S., Hallgrimsdóttir, I. B., Hamshere, M. L., Hart, L., Hattersley, A. T., Heward, J. M., Hider, S. L., Tran Tinh Hien, Hill, A. V., Hilton, E., Hinks, A. M., Hitman, G. A., Holmans, P. A., Horstmann, Rolf D., Howie, B. N., Hubbart, C., Hughes, C., Hunt, S. E., Hussein, A., Hussey, J. M., Muntaser, Ibrahim, Iles, M. M., Inouye, M., Ishengoma, D., Jallow, M., Jeffreys, A. E., Jewell, D. P., John, Sl, Jolley, J. D., Jones, I. R., Jones, L., Jones, R. W., Nadira, Karunaweera, Keniry, A., King, E., Kirov, G., Kivinen, K., Knight, A. S., Koch, K., Gilbert, Kokwaro, Koram, Kwadwo A., Lango, H., Lathrop, G. M., Lee, K. L., Lees, C. W., Martha, Lemnge, Leung, H. T., Lewis, C. M., Lin, E., Lindgren, C. M., Ly, A., Macinnis, B., Julie, Makani, Mangano, Valentina, Mangino, M., Manjurano, A., Manning, L., Mansfield, J. C., Manske, M., Maqbool, A., Marchini, J. L., Kevin, Marsh, Maslen, G., Mathew, C. G., Mcardle, W. L., Mccarthy, M. I., Mccreight, M., Mcginnis, R., Mcguffin, P., Meech, E., Mendy, A., Pascal, Michon, Mohiuddin, M. K., Molyneux, Malcolm E., Morris, A. P., Moskvina, V., Moyes, C., Ivo, Mueller, Munroe, P. B., Mutabingwa, T., Ndila, C. M., Newhouse, S. J., Newport, M., Nikolov, I., Nimmo, E. R., Nutland, S., Nyirongo, V., O'Donovan, M. C., Oluoch, T., Onipinla, A., Onnie, C. M., Ouwehand, W. H., Owen, M. J., Michael, Parker, Parkes, M., Pembrey, M., Pereira Gale, J., Perry, J. R., Norbert, Peshu, Plowe, Christopher V., Pointon, J. J., Potter, C., Potter, S., Prescott, N. J., Prowse, C. V., Odile, Puijalon, Quyen, N. T., Ragoussis, J., Rahman, N., Ravindrarajah, R., Rayner, N. W., John, Reeder, Hugh, Reyburn, Riley, Eleanor M., Ring, S. M., Risley, P., Rockett, K. A., Rogers, J., Rowlands, K., Anavaj, Sakuntabhai, Samani, N. J., Sanderson, J., Sanjoaquin, M., Satsangi, J., Sawcer, S. J., Seal, S., Shields, B. M., Silman, A. J., Simmonds, M. J., Pratap, Singhasivanon, Sodiomon, Sirima, Sirugo, G., Small, K. S., Somaskantharajah, E., Spencer, C. C., St Clair, D., Stevens, H. E., Stevens, M., Stevens, S., Strachan, D. P., Stratton, M. R., Su, Z., Suriyaphol, P., Symmons, D. P., Adama, Tall, Taylor, N. C., Taylor, Terrie E., Teo, Y., Teo, Y. Y., Mahamadou, Thera, Thompson, J. R., Thomson, W., Timpson, N. J., Tobin, M. D., Todd, J. A., Todhunter, C. E., Toure, O., Tremelling, M., Marita Troye Blomberg, Vanderwal, A., Vukcevic, D., Walker, M., Walker, N. M., Wallace, C., Walters, G. R., Walton, R., Watkins, N. A., Watson, R., Webster, J., Weedon, M. N., Whittaker, P., Widmer, B., Williams, Thomas N., Williamson, R., Michael, Wilson, Winzer, T., Withers, D., Wordsworth, P., Worthington, J., Wrigley, R., Xue, M., Young, A. H., Yuldasheva, N., and Zeggini, E.

Subjects
Linkage disequilibrium, Hemoglobin, Sickle, Population, Genome-wide association study, Locus (genetics), Biology, Population stratification, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Severity of Illness Index, Linkage Disequilibrium, Article, Gene mapping, Reference Values, Ethnicity, Genetics, Humans, education, Genetic association, education.field_of_study, Polymorphism, Genetic, Chromosome Mapping, Genetic Variation, Malaria, Gambia, Imputation (genetics), Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract

We report a genome-wide association (GWA) study of severe malaria in The Gambia. The initial GWA scan included 2,500 children genotyped on the Affymetrix 500K GeneChip, and a replication study included 3,400 children. We used this to examine the performance of GWA methods in Africa. We found considerable population stratification, and also that signals of association at known malaria resistance loci were greatly attenuated owing to weak linkage disequilibrium (LD). To investigate possible solutions to the problem of low LD, we focused on the HbS locus, sequencing this region of the genome in 62 Gambian individuals and then using these data to conduct multipoint imputation in the GWA samples. This increased the signal of association, from P = 4 × 10(-7) to P = 4 × 10(-14), with the peak of the signal located precisely at the HbS causal variant. Our findings provide proof of principle that fine-resolution multipoint imputation, based on population-specific sequencing data, can substantially boost authentic GWA signals and enable fine mapping of causal variants in African populations.

Published
2009

8. Stimulated Emission of Radiation in a Single Mode for both Resonance and Non-resonance for Various Initial Photon Distributions

Author

Tavis, M. T. and Cummings, F. W.

Subjects
Quantum Physics, FOS: Physical sciences, Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
Abstract

This paper reexamines the results of Cummings in which the quantum mechanical two-level-system (TLS) interacts with the electromagnetic field with various initial distributions and extends that work for both resonant and non-resonant to times large enough to display multiple photon echoes. The results presented here include the initial pure coherent state, the field whose initial density matrix is the Gaussian superposition of coherent states (blackbody radiation) and density matrices of the field represented by various combinations of mixed coherent and thermal states with and without squeezing This paper provides, in addition to the matrix elements to the various states, both the algebraic and graphical representation for the first order correlation function G= for resonance and non-resonance. It is found that in all case, the application of non-resonance leads to oscillations in the first order correlation which was thought only to apply for the coherent state even for the case of the pure thermal state., Comment: 26 pages, 14 tables many of which contain multiple figures or equations

Published
2012
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12. Phyllotaxis, a model

Author

Cummings, F. W.

Subjects
FOS: Biological sciences, Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB), Quantitative Biology - Cell Behavior, Quantitative Biology - Tissues and Organs, Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO)
Abstract

A model of the regular arrangement of leaves on a plant stem (phyllotactic patterns) is proposed, based on a new plant pattern algorithm. Tripartite patterning is proposed to occur by the interaction of two signaling pathways. Each pathway produces stimulated extracellular emission of like ligand upon activation of its respective receptor, as well as inhibiting such emission from the other pathway. Patterns arise spontaneously from zero density of activated receptor. All known phyllotactic patterns are reproduced, Fibonacci, distichous, decussate, and whorls, as well as the rare monostichy, with only one leaf directly above the previous., Comment: 11 pages, two figures, one table

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2009
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14. Recanalisation of the internal carotid artery following treatment of an acute ischemic stroke with intravenous rT-PA

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Dyker Ag, Semple Pf, and Cummings F

Subjects
Male, medicine.medical_specialty, business.industry, General Medicine, Recombinant Proteins, Brain Ischemia, Text mining, Fibrinolytic Agents, Internal medicine, medicine.artery, Tissue Plasminogen Activator, Acute Disease, Cardiology, medicine, Humans, Internal carotid artery, business, Infusions, Intravenous, Acute ischemic stroke, Carotid Artery, Internal, Aged, Ultrasonography
Published
1999

15. Integrated disease control initiatives: polio eradication and neonatal tetanus elimination in Egypt

Author

Esmat Mansour, Cummings F, and Aylward Rb

Subjects
Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, Flaccid paralysis, Adolescent, macromolecular substances, medicine.disease_cause, complex mixtures, Pregnancy, Poliomyelitis eradication, Environmental health, medicine, Tetanus Toxoid, Immunology and Allergy, Humans, Tetanus, business.industry, Immunization Programs, Poliovirus, Public health, Infant, Newborn, virus diseases, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Poliomyelitis, Vaccination, Neonatal tetanus, Infectious Diseases, Poliovirus Vaccine, Oral, Population Surveillance, Immunology, Egypt, Female, medicine.symptom, business
Abstract

Accelerated disease control initiatives, such as polio eradication by the year 2000, may substantially benefit public health programs in general. In Egypt, the control of other vaccine-preventable diseases, most noticeably neonatal tetanus (NT), has been facilitated by the polio eradication initiative. Linking NT reporting with the acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance system, which had been established for polio eradication, markedly improved the capacity to identify NT high-risk areas and target supplementary immunization activities appropriately. While the close integration of surveillance activities was to the benefit of both programs, mass immunization activities were not conducted simultaneously because of differences in the objectives, target populations, and operational aspects of oral polio vaccine and tetanus toxoid campaigns. In addition to substantial progress toward polio eradication in Egypt since 1988, there has been an 80% reduction in annual NT cases, in part due to the integration of appropriate aspects of these two disease control initiatives.

Published
1997

16. Etrolizumab versus infliximab for the treatment of moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis (GARDENIA): a randomised, double-blind, double-dummy, phase 3 study

Author

Silvio Danese, Jean-Frederic Colombel, Milan Lukas, Javier P Gisbert, Geert D'Haens, Bu'hussain Hayee, Remo Panaccione, Hyun-Soo Kim, Walter Reinisch, Helen Tyrrell, Young S Oh, Swati Tole, Akiko Chai, Kirsten Chamberlain-James, Meina Tao Tang, Stefan Schreiber, Nazimuddin Aboo, Tariq Ahmad, Xavier Aldeguer Mante, Matthieu Allez, Sven Almer, Romain Altwegg, Montserrat Andreu Garcia, Ramesh Arasaradnam, Sandro Ardizzone, Alessandro Armuzzi, Ian Arnott, Guy Aumais, Irit Avni-Biron, Peter Barrow, Ian Beales, Fernando Bermejo San Jose, Abraham Bezuidenhout, Livia Biancone, Michael Blaeker, Stuart Bloom, Bernd Bokemeyer, Fabrizio Bossa, Peter Bossuyt, Guillaume Bouguen, Yoram Bouhnik, Gerd Bouma, Raymond Bourdages, Arnaud Bourreille, Christian Boustiere, Tomas Brabec, Stephan Brand, Carsten Buening, Anthony Buisson, Guillaume Cadiot, Xavier Calvet Calvo, Franck Carbonnel, Daniel Carpio, Jae Hee Cheon, Naoki Chiba, Camelia Chioncel, Nicoleta-Claudia Cimpoeru, Martin Clodi, Gino Roberto Corazza, Rocco Cosintino, Jose Cotter, Thomas Creed, Fraser Cummings, Gian Luigi de' Angelis, Marc De Maeyer, Milind Desai, Etienne Desilets, Pierre Desreumaux, Olivier Dewit, Johanna Dinter, Ecaterina Daniela Dobru, Tomas Douda, Dan Lucian Dumitrascu, Matthias Ebert, Ana Echarri Piudo, Magdy Elkhashab, Chang Soo Eun, Brian Feagan, Roland Fejes, Catarina Fidalgo, Sigal Fishman, Bernard Flourié, Sharyle Fowler, Walter Fries, Csaba Fulop, Mathurin Fumery, Gyula G Kiss, Sonja Gassner, Daniel Gaya, Bastianello Germanà, Liliana Simona Gheorghe, Cyrielle Gilletta de Saint Joseph, Paolo Gionchetti, Adrian-Eugen Goldis, Raquel Gonçalves, Jean-Charles Grimaud, Tibor Gyökeres, Herve Hagege, Andrei Haidar, Heinz Hartmann, Peter Hasselblatt, Buhussain Hayee, Xavier Hebuterne, Per Hellström, Pieter Hindryckx, Helena Hlavova, Frank Hoentjen, Stefanie Howaldt, Ludek Hrdlicka, Kyu Chan Huh, Maria Isabel Iborra Colomino, Florentina Ionita-Radu, Peter Irving, Jørgen Jahnsen, ByungIk Jang, Jeroen Jansen, Seong Woo Jeon, Rodrigo Jover Martinez, Pascal Juillerat, Per Karlén, Arthur Kaser, Radan Keil, Deepak Kejariwal, Dan Keret, Reena Khanna, Dongwoo Kim, Duk Hwan Kim, Hyo-Jong Kim, Joo Sung Kim, Kueongok Kim, Kyung-Jo Kim, Sung Kook Kim, Young-Ho Kim, Jochen Klaus, Anna Kohn, Vladimir Kojecky, Ja Seol Koo, Robert Kozak, Milan Kremer, Tunde Kristof, Frederik Kruger, David Laharie, Adi Lahat-zok, Evgeny Landa, Jonghun Lee, Kang-Moon Lee, Kook Lae Lee, YooJin Lee, Frank Lenze, Wee Chian Lim, Jimmy Limdi, James Lindsay, Pilar Lopez Serrano, Edouard Louis, Stefan Lueth, Giovanni Maconi, Fazia Mana, Steven Mann, John Mansfield, Santino Marchi, Marco Marino, John Marshall, Maria Dolores Martin Arranz, Radu-Bogdan Mateescu, John McLaughlin, Simon McLaughlin, Ehud Melzer, Jessica Mertens, Paul Mitrut, Tamas Molnar, Vinciane Muls, Pushpakaran Munuswamy, Charles Murray, Timna Naftali, Visvakuren Naidoo, Yusuf Nanabhay, Lucian Negreanu, Augustin Nguyen, Thomas Ochsenkuehn, Ambrogio Orlando, Julian Panes Diaz, Maya Paritsky, Dong Il Park, Jihye Park, Luca Pastorelli, Markus Peck-Radosavljevic, Farhad Peerani, Javier Perez Gisbert, Laurent Peyrin-Biroulet, Laurence Picon, Marieke Pierik, Terry Ponich, Francisco Portela, Maartens Jeroen Prins, Istvan Racz, Khan Fareed Rahman, Jean-Marie Reimund, Max Reinshagen, Xavier Roblin, Rodolfo Rocca, Francesca Rogai, Gerhard Rogler, Agnes Salamon, Ennaliza Salazar, Zoltan Sallo, Sunil Samuel, Miquel de los Santos Sans Cuffi, Edoardo Vincenzo Savarino, Vincenzo Savarino, Guillaume Savoye, Andrada Seicean, Christian Selinger, David Martins Serra, Hang Hock Shim, SungJae Shin, Britta Siegmund, Jesse Siffledeen, Wayne Simmonds, Jan Smid, Jose Sollano, Geun Am Song, Alexander Speight, Ioan Sporea, Dirk Staessen, George Stancu, Alan Steel, David Stepek, Victor Stoica, Andreas Sturm, Gyorgy Szekely, Teck Kiang Tan, Carlos Taxonera Samso, John Thomson, Michal Tichy, Gabor Tamas Toth, Zsolt Tulassay, Marcello Vangeli, Marta Varga, Ana Vieira, Stephanie Viennot, Erica Villa, Petr Vitek, Harald Vogelsang, Petr Vyhnalek, Peter Wahab, Jens Walldorf, Byong Duk Ye, Christopher Ziady, Danese S., Colombel J.-F., Lukas M., Gisbert J.P., D'Haens G., Hayee B., Panaccione R., Kim H.-S., Reinisch W., Tyrrell H., Oh Y.S., Tole S., Chai A., Chamberlain-James K., Tang M.T., Schreiber S., Aboo N., Ahmad T., Aldeguer Mante X., Allez M., Almer S., Altwegg R., Andreu Garcia M., Arasaradnam R., Ardizzone S., Armuzzi A., Arnott I., Aumais G., Avni-Biron I., Barrow P., Beales I., Bermejo San Jose F., Bezuidenhout A., Biancone L., Blaeker M., Bloom S., Bokemeyer B., Bossa F., Bossuyt P., Bouguen G., Bouhnik Y., Bouma G., Bourdages R., Bourreille A., Boustiere C., Brabec T., Brand S., Buening C., Buisson A., Cadiot G., Calvet Calvo X., Carbonnel F., Carpio D., Cheon J.H., Chiba N., Chioncel C., Cimpoeru N.-C., Clodi M., Corazza G.R., Cosintino R., Cotter J., Creed T., Cummings F., de' Angelis G.L., De Maeyer M., Desai M., Desilets E., Desreumaux P., Dewit O., Dinter J., Dobru E.D., Douda T., Dumitrascu D.L., Ebert M., Echarri Piudo A., Elkhashab M., Eun C.S., Feagan B., Fejes R., Fidalgo C., Fishman S., Flourie B., Fowler S., Fries W., Fulop C., Fumery M., G Kiss G., Gassner S., Gaya D., Germana B., Gheorghe L.S., Gilletta de Saint Joseph C., Gionchetti P., Goldis A.-E., Goncalves R., Grimaud J.-C., Gyokeres T., Hagege H., Haidar A., Hartmann H., Hasselblatt P., Hebuterne X., Hellstrom P., Hindryckx P., Hlavova H., Hoentjen F., Howaldt S., Hrdlicka L., Huh K.C., Iborra Colomino M.I., Ionita-Radu F., Irving P., Jahnsen J., Jang B., Jansen J., Jeon S.W., Jover Martinez R., Juillerat P., Karlen P., Kaser A., Keil R., Kejariwal D., Keret D., Khanna R., Kim D., Kim D.H., Kim H.-J., Kim J.S., Kim K., Kim K.-J., Kim S.K., Kim Y.-H., Klaus J., Kohn A., Kojecky V., Koo J.S., Kozak R., Kremer M., Kristof T., Kruger F., Laharie D., Lahat-zok A., Landa E., Lee J., Lee K.-M., Lee K.L., Lee Y., Lenze F., Lim W.C., Limdi J., Lindsay J., Lopez Serrano P., Louis E., Lueth S., Maconi G., Mana F., Mann S., Mansfield J., Marchi S., Marino M., Marshall J., Martin Arranz M.D., Mateescu R.-B., McLaughlin J., McLaughlin S., Melzer E., Mertens J., Mitrut P., Molnar T., Muls V., Munuswamy P., Murray C., Naftali T., Naidoo V., Nanabhay Y., Negreanu L., Nguyen A., Ochsenkuehn T., Orlando A., Panes Diaz J., Paritsky M., Park D.I., Park J., Pastorelli L., Peck-Radosavljevic M., Peerani F., Perez Gisbert J., Peyrin-Biroulet L., Picon L., Pierik M., Ponich T., Portela F., Prins M.J., Racz I., Rahman K.F., Reimund J.-M., Reinshagen M., Roblin X., Rocca R., Rogai F., Rogler G., Salamon A., Salazar E., Sallo Z., Samuel S., Sans Cuffi M.D.L.S., Savarino E.V., Savarino V., Savoye G., Seicean A., Selinger C., Serra D.M., Shim H.H., Shin S., Siegmund B., Siffledeen J., Simmonds W., Smid J., Sollano J., Song G.A., Speight A., Sporea I., Staessen D., Stancu G., Steel A., Stepek D., Stoica V., Sturm A., Szekely G., Tan T.K., Taxonera Samso C., Thomson J., Tichy M., Toth G.T., Tulassay Z., Vangeli M., Varga M., Vieira A., Viennot S., Villa E., Vitek P., Vogelsang H., Vyhnalek P., Wahab P., Walldorf J., Ye B.D., and Ziady C.

Subjects
Adult, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, Population, Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized, Injections, Subcutaneou, Placebo, Severity of Illness Index, Gastroenterology, Young Adult, Double-Blind Method, Internal medicine, Gastrointestinal Agent, Clinical endpoint, medicine, education, Adverse effect, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, education.field_of_study, Hepatology, business.industry, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Ulcerative colitis, Infliximab, Treatment Outcome, Etrolizumab, Concomitant, Colitis, Ulcerative, Female, business, Inflammatory diseases Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences [Radboudumc 5], Human, medicine.drug
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Item does not contain fulltext BACKGROUND: Etrolizumab is a gut-targeted anti-β7 integrin monoclonal antibody. In a previous phase 2 induction study, etrolizumab significantly improved clinical remission versus placebo in patients with moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis. We aimed to compare the safety and efficacy of etrolizumab with infliximab in patients with moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis. METHODS: We conducted a randomised, double-blind, double-dummy, parallel-group, phase 3 study (GARDENIA) across 114 treatment centres worldwide. We included adults (age 18-80 years) with moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis (Mayo Clinic total score [MCS] of 6-12 with an endoscopic subscore of ≥2, a rectal bleeding subscore of ≥1, and a stool frequency subscore of ≥1) who were naive to tumour necrosis factor inhibitors. Patients were required to have had an established diagnosis of ulcerative colitis for at least 3 months, corroborated by both clinical and endoscopic evidence, and evidence of disease extending at least 20 cm from the anal verge. Participants were randomly assigned (1:1) to receive subcutaneous etrolizumab 105 mg once every 4 weeks or intravenous infliximab 5 mg/kg at 0, 2, and 6 weeks and every 8 weeks thereafter for 52 weeks. Randomisation was stratified by baseline concomitant treatment with corticosteroids, concomitant treatment with immunosuppressants, and baseline disease activity. All participants and study site personnel were masked to treatment assignment. The primary endpoint was the proportion of patients who had both clinical response at week 10 (MCS ≥3-point decrease and ≥30% reduction from baseline, plus ≥1-point decrease in rectal bleeding subscore or absolute rectal bleeding score of 0 or 1) and clinical remission at week 54 (MCS ≤2, with individual subscores ≤1); efficacy was analysed using a modified intention-to-treat population (all randomised patients who received at least one dose of study drug). GARDENIA was designed to show superiority of etrolizumab over infliximab for the primary endpoint. This trial is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT02136069, and is now closed to recruitment. FINDINGS: Between Dec 24, 2014, and June 23, 2020, 730 patients were screened for eligibility and 397 were enrolled and randomly assigned to etrolizumab (n=199) or infliximab (n=198). 95 (48%) patients in the etrolizumab group and 103 (52%) in the infliximab group completed the study through week 54. At week 54, 37 (18·6%) of 199 patients in the etrolizumab group and 39 (19·7%) of 198 in the infliximab group met the primary endpoint (adjusted treatment difference -0·9% [95% CI -8·7 to 6·8]; p=0·81). The number of patients reporting one or more adverse events was similar between treatment groups (154 [77%] of 199 in the etrolizumab group and 151 [76%] of 198 in the infliximab group); the most common adverse event in both groups was ulcerative colitis (55 [28%] patients in the etrolizumab group and 43 [22%] in the infliximab group). More patients in the etrolizumab group reported serious adverse events (including serious infections) than did those in the infliximab group (32 [16%] vs 20 [10%]); the most common serious adverse event was ulcerative colitis (12 [6%] and 11 [6%]). There was one death during follow-up, in the infliximab group due to a pulmonary embolism, which was not considered to be related to study treatment. INTERPRETATION: To our knowledge, this trial is the first phase 3 maintenance study in moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis to use infliximab as an active comparator. Although the study did not show statistical superiority for the primary endpoint, etrolizumab performed similarly to infliximab from a clinical viewpoint. FUNDING: F Hoffmann-La Roche.

Published
2022

17. Etrolizumab as induction and maintenance therapy for ulcerative colitis in patients previously treated with tumour necrosis factor inhibitors (HICKORY): a phase 3, randomised, controlled trial

Author

Laurent Peyrin-Biroulet, Ailsa Hart, Peter Bossuyt, Millie Long, Matthieu Allez, Pascal Juillerat, Alessandro Armuzzi, Edward V Loftus, Elham Ostad-Saffari, Astrid Scalori, Young S Oh, Swati Tole, Akiko Chai, Jennifer Pulley, Stuart Lacey, William J Sandborn, Humberto Aguilar, Tariq Ahmad, Evangelos Akriviadis, Xavier Aldeguer Mante, Istvan Altorjay, Ashwin Ananthakrishnan, Vibeke Andersen, Montserrat Andreu Garcia, Guy Aumais, Irit Avni-Biron, Jeffrey Axler, Kamran Ayub, Filip Baert, Mauro Bafutto, George Bamias, Isaac Bassan, Curtis Baum, Laurent Beaugerie, Brian Behm, Pradeep Bekal, Michael Bennett, Fernando Bermejo San Jose, Charles Bernstein, Dominik Bettenworth, Sudhir Bhaskar, Livia Biancone, Bahri Bilir, Michael Blaeker, Stuart Bloom, Verle Bohman, Francisco Javier Bosques Padilla, Yoram Bouhnik, Gerd Bouma, Raymond Bourdages, Stephan Brand, Brian Bressler, Markus Brückner, Carsten Buening, Franck Carbonnel, Thomas Caves, Jonathon Chapman, Jae Hee Cheon, Naoki Chiba, Camelia Chioncel, Dimitrios Christodoulou, Martin Clodi, Albert Cohen, Gino Roberto Corazza, Richard Corlin, Rocco Cosintino, Fraser Cummings, Robin Dalal, Silvio Danese, Marc De Maeyer, Carlos Fernando De Magalhães Francesconi, Aminda De Silva, Henry Debinski, Pierre Desreumaux, Olivier Dewit, Geert D'Haens, Sandra Di Felice Boratto, John Nik Ding, Tyler Dixon, Gerald Dryden, George Aaron Du Vall, Matthias Ebert, Ana Echarri Piudo, Robert Ehehalt, Magdy Elkhashab, Craig Ennis, Jason Etzel, Jan Fallingborg, Brian Feagan, Roland Fejes, Daniel Ferraz de Campos Mazo, Valéria Ferreira de Almeida Borges, Andreas Fischer, Alan Fixelle, Mark Fleisher, Sharyle Fowler, Bradley Freilich, Keith Friedenberg, Walter Fries, Csaba Fulop, Mathurin Fumery, Sergio Fuster, Gyula G Kiss, Santiago Garcia Lopez, Sonja Gassner, Kanwar Gill, Cyrielle Gilletta de Saint Joseph, Philip Ginsburg, Paolo Gionchetti, Eran Goldin, Adrian-Eugen Goldis, Hector Alejandro Gomez Jaramillo, Maciej Gonciarz, Glenn Gordon, Daniel 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Molteni, David Laharie, Adi Lahat-zok, Jonghun Lee, Kang-Moon Lee, Rupert Leong, Henry Levine, Jimmy Limdi, James Lindsay, Nilesh Lodhia, Edward Loftus, Randy Longman, Pilar Lopez Serrano, Edouard Louis, Maria Helena Louzada Pereira, John Lowe, Stefan Lueth, Milan Lukas, Giovanni Maconi, Finlay Macrae, Laszlo Madi-Szabo, Uma Mahadevan-Velayos, Everson Fernando Malluta, Fazia Mana, Peter Mannon, Gerasimos Mantzaris, Ignacio Marin Jimenez, Maria Dolores Martin Arranz, Radu-Bogdan Mateescu, Felipe Mazzoleni, Agnieszka Meder, Ehud Melzer, Jessica Mertens, Konstantinos Mimidis, Brent Mitchell, Tamas Molnar, Gregory Moore, Luis Alonso Morales Garza, Reme Mountifield, Vinciane Muls, Charles Murray, Bela Nagy, Markus Neurath, Augustin Nguyen, Remo Panaccione, William Pandak, Julian Panes Diaz, Jihye Park, Luca Pastorelli, Bhaktasharan Patel, Markus Peck-Radosavljevic, Gyula Pecsi, Farhad Peerani, Javier Perez Gisbert, Martin Pesta, Robert Petryka, Raymond Phillips, Marieke Pierik, 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Adult, Male, Ulcerative Colitis Flare, medicine.medical_specialty, Asia, Adolescent, Oceania, Population, Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized, Injections, Subcutaneou, Placebo, Severity of Illness Index, law.invention, Middle East, Young Adult, Maintenance therapy, Randomized controlled trial, law, Internal medicine, Gastrointestinal Agent, medicine, Adverse effect, education, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitor, education.field_of_study, Hepatology, business.industry, Remission Induction, Gastroenterology, Middle Aged, South America, medicine.disease, Ulcerative colitis, Europe, Treatment Outcome, Etrolizumab, North America, Colitis, Ulcerative, Female, business, Inflammatory diseases Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences [Radboudumc 5], Human
Abstract

Summary Background Etrolizumab is a gut-targeted, anti-β7 integrin, monoclonal antibody. In an earlier phase 2 induction study, etrolizumab significantly improved clinical remission compared with placebo in patients with moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis. We aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of etrolizumab in patients with moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis who had been previously treated with anti-tumour necrosis factor (TNF) agents. Methods HICKORY was a multicentre, phase 3, double-blind, placebo-controlled study in adult (18–80 years) patients with moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis (Mayo Clinic total score [MCS] of 6–12 with an endoscopic subscore of ≥2, a rectal bleeding subscore of ≥1, and a stool frequency subscore of ≥1) previously treated with TNF inhibitors. Patients were recruited from 184 treatment centres across 24 countries in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East. Patients needed to have an established diagnosis of ulcerative colitis for at least 3 months, corroborated by both clinical and endoscopic evidence, and evidence of disease extending at least 20 cm from the anal verge. In cohort 1, patients received open-label etrolizumab 105 mg every 4 weeks for a 14-week induction period. In cohort 2, patients were randomly assigned (4:1) to receive subcutaneous etrolizumab 105 mg or placebo every 4 weeks for the 14-week induction phase. Patients in either cohort achieving clinical response to etrolizumab induction were eligible for the maintenance phase, in which they were randomly assigned (1:1) to receive subcutaneous etrolizumab 105 mg or placebo every 4 weeks through to week 66. Randomisation was stratified by baseline concomitant treatment with corticosteroids, concomitant treatment with immunosuppressants (induction randomisation only), baseline disease activity, week 14 MCS remission status (maintenance randomisation only), and induction cohort (maintenance randomisation only). All patients and study site personnel were masked to treatment assignment. Primary endpoints were remission (Mayo Clinic total score [MCS] ≤2, with individual subscores of ≤1 and a rectal bleeding subscore of 0) at week 14, and remission at week 66 among patients with a clinical response (MCS with ≥3-point decrease and ≥30% reduction from baseline, plus ≥1 point decrease in rectal bleeding subscore or absolute rectal bleeding score of 0 or 1) at week 14. Efficacy was analysed using a modified intent-to-treat population. Safety analyses included all patients who received at least one dose of study drug during the induction phase. This study is registered at ClinicalTrials.gov , NCT02100696 . Findings HICKORY was conducted from May 21, 2014, to April 16, 2020, during which time 1081 patients were screened, and 609 deemed eligible for inclusion. 130 patients were included in cohort 1. In cohort 2,479 patients were randomly assigned to the induction phase (etrolizumab n=384, placebo n=95). 232 patients were randomly assigned to the maintenance phase (etrolizumab to etrolizumab n=117, etrolizumab to placebo n=115). At week 14, 71 (18·5%) of 384 patients in the etrolizumab group and six (6·3%) of 95 patients in the placebo group achieved the primary induction endpoint of remission (p=0·0033). No significant difference between etrolizumab and placebo was observed for the primary maintenance endpoint of remission at week 66 among patients with a clinical response at week 14 (27 [24·1%] of 112 vs 23 [20·2%] of 114; p=0·50). Four patients in the etrolizumab group reported treatment-related adverse events leading to treatment discontinuation. The proportion of patients reporting at least adverse event was similar between treatment groups for induction (etrolizumab 253 [66%] of 384; placebo 63 [66%] of 95) and maintenance (etrolizumab to etrolizumab 98 [88%] of 112; etrolizumab to placebo 97 [85%] of 114). The most common adverse event in both groups was ulcerative colitis flare. Most adverse events were mild or moderate. During induction, the most common serious adverse event was ulcerative colitis flare (etrolizumab ten [3%] of 384; placebo: two [2%] of 95). During maintenance, the most common serious adverse event in the etrolizumab to etrolizumab group was appendicitis (two [2%] of 112) and the most common serious adverse events in the etrolizumab to placebo group were ulcerative colitis flare (two [2%] of 114) and anaemia (two [2%] of 114). Interpretation HICKORY demonstrated that a significantly higher proportion of patients with moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis who had been previously treated with anti-TNF agent were able to achieve remission at week 14 when treated with etrolizumab compared with placebo; however, there was no significant difference between groups in remission at week 66 among patients with a clinical response at week 14. Funding F Hoffmann-La Roche.

Published
2022

18. Anti-TNF biosimilars in Crohn’s Disease: a patient-centric interdisciplinary approach

Author

Laurent Peyrin-Biroulet, Taegyun Kang, Fraser Cummings, Kay Greveson, Silvio Danese, Raja Atreya, Burkhard Pieper, Peyrin-Biroulet, L, Danese, S, Cummings, F, Atreya, R, Greveson, K, Pieper, B, and Kang, T

Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty, Anti-Inflammatory Agents, MEDLINE, Drug Costs, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Crohn Disease, Patient-Centered Care, Adalimumab, Humans, Medicine, Intensive care medicine, Biosimilar Pharmaceuticals, Patient Care Team, Crohn's disease, Patient care team, Hepatology, Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha, business.industry, Gastroenterology, Antibodies, Monoclonal, Biosimilar, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, medicine.disease, Infliximab, Early Diagnosis, Patient centric, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, 030211 gastroenterology & hepatology, Tumor necrosis factor alpha, Drug Monitoring, business, medicine.drug
Abstract

Introduction: The purpose of this review is to highlight the role of biosimilars in early treatment in IBD and introduce ways to facilitate a patient-centric switching process through multi...

Published
2019

19. Lessons from shelter homes that help children in especially difficult circumstances: case studies in northern Mexico

Author

Gonzalez Ponce, Sandra M., Cebotarev, Eleanora, and Cummings, F. Harry

Subjects
shelter homes, Children in Especially Difficult Circumstances, experiences, Casas Hogares, routines
Abstract

This paper examines issues surrounding shelters (Casas Hogares) that help Children in Especially Difficult Circumstances (CEDC). The literature states that there is a need to "systematically document and learn more from the current efforts in helping children in order to improve program effectiveness at both the country and regional levels" (UNICEF, 1990). This research addresses the aforementioned concern and provides information on what can be learned from the children that live in these shelters, how these shelters function, and what can be learned by studying the experience of these shelters. The investigation was conducted at two shelter homes that help CEDC in a border town in Mexico's north. Interviews and participant observation techniques were used. A total of eighteen staff members were interviewed, and information for over 100 children was acquired. The information on the children was obtained through interviews as well as by asking staff members about the child's particular case. Documenting the routines and the experiences of these shelters, provides valuable lessons that can be taken into consideration for those who wish to work with CEDC. Amongst some of the issues that arose in this study were reasons why children arrive at the shelter home, as well as some of the challenges these organizations face; for example, when dealing with donors and when trying to obtain funds.

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2001

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