Drs Peter Higgins and Michael Chiorean discuss risk stratification, monitoring, and treatment of Crohn's disease after surgery.

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Resources

Laparoscopic Ileocaecal Resection Versus Infliximab for Terminal Ileitis in Crohn's Disease: Retrospective Long-term Follow-up of the LIR!C Trial https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langas/article/PIIS2468-1253(20)30117-5/fulltext

Infliximab Reduces Endoscopic, but Not Clinical, Recurrence of Crohn's Disease After Ileocolonic Resection https://www.gastrojournal.org/article/S0016-5085(16)00293-6/fulltext?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fpubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2F

Crohn's Disease Management After Intestinal Resection: A Randomised Trial https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(14)61908-5.pdf

Controlled Trial of Metronidazole Treatment for Prevention of Crohn's Recurrence After Ileal Resection https://www.gastrojournal.org/article/0016-5085(95)90121-3/pdf?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fpubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2F

Metronidazole https://reference.medscape.com/drug/flagyl-metronidazole-342566

Nitroimidazoles https://reference.medscape.com/drugs/nitroimidazoles

Ciprofloxacin for the Prevention of Postoperative Recurrence in Patients With Crohn's Disease: A Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-Controlled Pilot Study https://academic.oup.com/ibdjournal/article/19/5/1073/4603177?login=true

Postoperative Therapy With Infliximab Prevents Long-term Crohn's Disease Recurrence https://www.cghjournal.org/article/S1542-3565(14)00053-6/fulltext

Mesalamine https://reference.medscape.com/drug/asacol-hd-pentasa-mesalamine-342074

Infliximab https://reference.medscape.com/drug/remicade-inflectra-infliximab-343202

Infliximab, Azathioprine, or Combination Therapy for Crohn's Disease https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa0904492

Adalimumab https://reference.medscape.com/drug/amjevita-humira-adalimumab-343187

What Is the Role of Fecal Calprotectin Levels in the Diagnosis of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)? https://www.medscape.com/answers/179037-54913/what-is-the-role-of-fecal-calprotectin-levels-in-the-diagnosis-of-inflammatory-bowel-disease-ibd

P115 Monitoring Faecal Calprotectin at 3 Months Post-Surgery Is Useful to Predict Further Postoperative Endoscopic Recurrence in Crohn's Disease https://academic.oup.com/ecco-jcc/article/13/Supplement_1/S145/5300800

Ustekinumab https://reference.medscape.com/drug/stelara-ustekinumab-345050