Postoperative Outcomes in Vedolizumab-Treated Patients Undergoing Major Abdominal Operations for Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Retrospective Multicenter Cohort Study

Amy L. Lightner, Kellie L. Mathis, Chung Sang Tse, John H. Pembérton, Bo Shen, Gursimran Kochhar, Amandeep Singh, Parambir S. Dulai, Samuel Eisenstein, William J. Sandborn,

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases · 2018 · 64 citations · 12 references

Abstract

We observed that vedolizumab-treated patients were at significantly increased risk of postoperative SSIs after a major abdominal operation, as compared with anti-TNF-treated patients.

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