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Optimizing the Use of Current Treatments and Emerging Therapeutic Approaches to Achieve Therapeutic Success in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

ABSTRACT: The current goal of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) treatment is a symptom-free everyday life accompanied by mucosal healing with minimal use of corticosteroids. Recent therapeutic advances, particularly, the emergence of anti-tumor necrosis factor (anti-TNF) antibodies, have changed the natural history of IBD. Additionally, these advances also led to the emergence of the therapeutic concept of the "treat to target" strategy. With the development of new drugs and clinical trials, not only biologics but also small molecules have been applied to clinical practice to better individualize and optimize therapy. However, if newer drugs, including anti-TNF therapies, are recommended for all patients diagnosed with IBD, a significant number of patients will be overtreated. The basic goal of IBD treatment is still to make the best use of conventional treatments based on IBD pathophysiology. Thus, physicians should be familiar with the modes of action of the available drugs. In this review, the author discusses the existing data for many approved drugs and provide insights for optimizing current treatments for the management of patients with IBD in the era of biologics.

SUBMITTER: Nakase H

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6974326 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Optimizing the Use of Current Treatments and Emerging Therapeutic Approaches to Achieve Therapeutic Success in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

Nakase Hiroshi H

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The current goal of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) treatment is a symptom-free everyday life accompanied by mucosal healing with minimal use of corticosteroids. Recent therapeutic advances, particularly, the emergence of anti-tumor necrosis factor (anti-TNF) antibodies, have changed the natural history of IBD. Additionally, these advances also led to the emergence of the therapeutic concept of the "treat to target" strategy. With the development of new drugs and clinical trials, not only biolo ...[more]

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Project description:BackgroundTherapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) is a decision-making tool for optimizing the use of certain therapies. In this article, the authors review the role of proactive TDM of biological agents in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and other immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMID). They also discuss the future of TDM as a component of personalized medicine from the clinical laboratory perspective.MethodsThis narrative review originated from proceedings of the fifth biannual Challenges in Therapeutic Drug Monitoring seminar and was supplemented by additional literature identified at various stages of critical review.ResultsProactive TDM aims to achieve adequate concentrations of biological drugs, such that patients attain and maintain an optimal treatment response. Proactive TDM may also have a role in de-escalating anti-tumor necrosis factor therapy in patients in clinical remission and in optimizing infliximab monotherapy as an alternative to combination therapy with an immunomodulator. A major proactive TDM application is in pediatric patients with IBD. Achieving mucosal healing in children with IBD requires that infliximab or adalimumab concentrations are monitored early during induction therapy, with dose modifications guided by the timing (week) of measurement. Recent innovations in biological therapy include international standards for infliximab and adalimumab for the global harmonization of bioactivity and monotest devices with an accuracy equivalent to that of conventional enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays and quicker turnaround times.ConclusionsDespite several knowledge gaps regarding proactive TDM of anti-tumor necrosis factor therapy in patients with IMID, growing evidence suggests that it is associated with better outcomes than empiric optimization and/or reactive TDM in IBD. Enhanced pharmacokinetic modeling to predict drug exposure and patient genotyping for the precise application of proactive TDM are considered key elements to optimize biological therapy in the future.

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Optimizing the Use of Current Treatments and Emerging Therapeutic Approaches to Achieve Therapeutic Success in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

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Optimizing the Use of Current Treatments and Emerging Therapeutic Approaches to Achieve Therapeutic Success in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

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