Successive Treatment With Cyclosporine and Infliximab in Steroid-Refractory Ulcerative Colitis

Abstract

In patients with intravenous steroid-refractory UC and who fail to respond to CYS or IFX, a second-line rescue therapy may be effective in carefully selected patients, avoiding colectomy within 2 months in two-thirds of them. The risk/benefit ratio should still be considered individually.