Traditional treatments for Crohn's disease include 5-aminosalicylic acid, corticosteroids and azathioprine, but these have limited efficacy in a significant proportion of patients with more severe ...

and 5-aminosalicylic acid (1.50–2.25 g daily). At 3 weeks, 16 patients (80%) were judged (by colonoscopy findings) to be responders, 11 (55%) of these had achieved clinical remission.

In the present study, we report hospital-based, 1-year clinical outcomes of Korean active UC patients who received their first course of corticosteroids concomitantly with 5-aminosalicylic acid (5 ...