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Crohn's disease future or investigational therapies
Introduction
Ustekinumab
Recent studies have found that in patients refarctory to treatment with tumor necrosis factor (TNF) antagonists, subcutaneously administered maintenance doses of ustekinumab showed a significant benefit in terms of clinical response but not remission, and were efficacious during a period of 22 weeks.[1]