At the World Congress of Gastroenterology in September, I had the opportunity to debate the benefits of a 'top-down' approach to the ... versus our current 'step-up' algorithms, which initiate ...
The conventional therapy consists of a sequential ('step-up') approach with an initial treatment with budesonide or prednisone, followed by azathioprine if patients became steroid-dependant or ...
Present therapeutic guidelines follow a sequential step-up approach that focuses on treating acute disease or 'inducing clinical remission' and subsequently aims to 'maintain clinical response'.