Exclusive enteral nutrition with concomitant early thiopurine use was effective in maintaining steroid-free remission in a Southeast Asian cohort of children with Crohn's disease.
Christina OngPoh Ting LimVeena LogarajahMaria Janelle LiwanagBi Xia AngYuqin CherFang Kuan ChiouAjmal KaderPublished in: BMC gastroenterology (2018)
EEN effectively induces remission in this cohort of SEA children with newly diagnosed CD. Early initiation of thiopurine with EEN induction therapy is effective in maintaining steroid-free remission for at least one year.