Ustekinumab Treatment for Toxic Megacolon in Severe Colonic Crohn's Disease: First Case Report.
We present a case report of toxic megacolon in a patient with a severe refractory colonic Crohn's disease, where anti-TNF therapies were contraindicated. Consequently we decided to use ustekinumab as rescue therapy despite insufficient evidence to provide recommendations for this indication.
PMID: 33244975 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Revista Espanola de Enfermedades Digestivas - Category: Gastroenterology Tags: Rev Esp Enferm Dig Source Type: research
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