[A case of refractory pediatric Crohn's disease with a successful treatment by infliximab therapy]

Korean J Gastroenterol. 2005 Oct;46(4):297-301.
[Article in Korean]

Abstract

Crohn's disease is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease which affects mainly children and young adults, and its cause remains unknown so far. Infliximab, a monoclonal antibody to the pivotal cytokine tumor necrosis factor-alpha, has been approved as a drug for both induction and maintenance therapy for moderately to severely active, or fistula-complicated Crohn's disease. The authors report a 12-year-old male patient diagnosed as Crohn's disease complicated with a perianal fistula, which was refractory to the conventional therapy. After the 0, 2, and 6 week scheduled intravenous infusion of infliximab, the patient reached to clinical remission in both subjective symptoms and objective manifestations. For children or young adults who develop Crohn's disease in a refractory course, infliximab may serve as a drug which leads to a clinical improvement or even to an extent of remission.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Antibodies, Monoclonal / administration & dosage*
  • Child
  • Crohn Disease / drug therapy*
  • Drug Administration Schedule
  • Gastrointestinal Agents / administration & dosage*
  • Humans
  • Infliximab
  • Infusions, Intravenous
  • Male

Substances

  • Antibodies, Monoclonal
  • Gastrointestinal Agents
  • Infliximab