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Use of antibiotics in patients with C rohn's disease: A systematic review and meta‐analysis
Author(s) -
Su Jie Wen,
Ma Jing Jing,
Zhang Hong Jie
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of digestive diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.684
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1751-2980
pISSN - 1751-2972
DOI - 10.1111/1751-2980.12216
Subject(s) - medicine , placebo , meta analysis , ciprofloxacin , relative risk , antibiotics , randomized controlled trial , subgroup analysis , confidence interval , medline , clinical trial , alternative medicine , pathology , microbiology and biotechnology , political science , law , biology
Objectives Some studies have suggested that antibiotic treatment might be efficient for patients with active Crohn's disease ( CD ). However, the results are conflicting. The aim of this study was to summarize the available evidence on the efficacy of antibiotics, especially ciprofloxacin, in treating patients with CD . Methods A literature search was conducted on the PubMed, Medline, Web of Science and Excerpta Medica Database (EMBASE) for manuscripts published until M arch 2014. Randomized controlled trials that mainly evaluated the efficacy of antibiotic treatment in patients with CD using clinical remission or response as the key outcome of interest were included. Intention‐to‐treat analyses were used to evaluate the relative risk ( RR ) and 95% confidence intervals ( CI ).Results In all, 15 randomized placebo‐controlled clinical trials involving 1407 participants were included in the meta‐analysis. A pooled analysis revealed that compared with placebo, antibiotics benefited CD patients to a certain extent ( RR 1.33, 95% CI 1.17–1.51, P < 0.00001). The random‐effects model showed that there was no significant difference between patients treated with ciprofloxacin and placebo (combined RR 1.35, 95% CI 0.92–1.97, P = 0.12). However, ciprofloxacin exhibited significant clinical benefits in patients with perianal fistulas ( RR 1.64, 95% CI 1.16–2.32, P = 0.005). Conclusions The utility of antibiotics was beneficial for patients with CD . Nevertheless, subgroup analyses indicated that treatment with ciprofloxacin alone was significantly efficient for CD patients with perianal fistulas.