Azathioprine versus mesalazine for prevention of postoperative clinical recurrence in patients with Crohn's disease with endoscopic recurrence: efficacy and safety results of a randomised, double-blind, double-dummy, multicentre trial

Abstract

This was a 1 year, double-blind, double-dummy, multicentre, randomised study. The aim of the study was to compare azathioprine versus mesalazine tablets for the prevention of clinical recurrence in patients with postoperative Crohn's disease (CD) with moderate or severe endoscopic recurrence.

Keywords

• Crohn's disease
• azathiorpine
• mesalazine
• surgery
• post-surical prophylaxis
• clinical recurrence