Dual Therapy for Complex Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Safety, Clinical and Steroid-Free Response

Anne-Mette Haase, Jens Kelsen, Jørgen Agnholt, Mia Bendix · 2026

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Haase, Kelsen, Agnholt, and Bendix reviewed dual therapy for complex inflammatory bowel disease in twenty twenty-six. Single advanced drugs bring remission in only about thirty to fifty percent of patients in the first year. Dual therapy pairs two advanced drugs for patients whose bowel inflammation or symptoms elsewhere persist.

The team reviewed records from two Danish hospitals for patients treated at least three months between twenty eighteen and twenty twenty-three. Seventy-four patients received seventy-nine dual therapies, most often Crohn's disease cases. About half achieved a clinical response by follow-up. Most Crohn's patients reached follow-up free of steroids. Severe side effects occurred in eight therapies. The authors call the response rate substantial but say the risk must be weighed against the gain.

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CREATORAnne-Mette Haase, Jens Kelsen, Jørgen Agnholt, Mia Bendix
YEAR2026
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE32 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC13576839

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