Medication classes

Antibiotics

Antibiotic articles covering medicines such as metronidazole and ciprofloxacin when they appear in Crohn's disease and IBD care. Medication context emphasizes treatment decisions, safety, approvals, and therapy access.

13 articles

Continued concomitant antibiotic or immunosuppression therapies reduce the risk of pouchitis among patients with ileal pouch-anal anastomosis and primary sclerosing cholangitis.
Crohn's & colitis 360

Continued concomitant antibiotic or immunosuppression therapies reduce the risk of pouchitis among patients with ileal pouch-anal anastomosis and primary sclerosing cholangitis.

Patients with ulcerative colitis and PSC face higher risk of pouch inflammation after IPAA. The study reports fewer pouchitis events among the small group who received antibiotics or immunosuppression, which could...

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Drug-associated inflammatory bowel disease: a real-world pharmacovigilance study using the FAERS and JADER databases.
Frontiers in immunology

Drug-associated inflammatory bowel disease: a real-world pharmacovigilance study using the FAERS and JADER databases.

This paper systematically catalogs drugs that have been reported with new or worsening IBD in two large pharmacovigilance databases. Knowing which medications generate strong reporting signals can help clinicians and...

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Current and emerging therapeutic strategies targeting adherent-invasive Escherichia coli in Crohn’s disease: a review
Gut Pathogens

Current and emerging therapeutic strategies targeting adherent-invasive Escherichia coli in Crohn’s disease: a review

Adherent-invasive E. coli (AIEC) is implicated in Crohn’s disease inflammation in some patients. This review maps possible ways to target AIEC specifically, which could lead to therapies that reduce infection-driven...

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