American College of Gastroenterology

Up to 2% of patients with IBD also have EoE.

Guselkumab bested placebo in clinical results of patients with ulcerative colitis.

"The best test is the 1 that gets done," Williams said.

In a late-breaking abstract, the investigators compared antibody levels at month 6 compared to month 1.

A greater proportion of the upadacitinib 15 mg and upadacitinib 30 mg group achieved clinical remission based on the Crohn’s Disease Activity Index

Antibiotics followed by oral SER-109 demonstrated a low rate of recurrent clostridioides difficile infection through week 8, regardless of the number of prior episodes.

Extended induction treatment with upadacitinib 45 mg led to achievement of clinical response in a clinically meaningful proportion of patients with ulcerative colitis who do not respond to 8 weeks of induction therapy.

RBX2660 reduced clostridioides difficile infection recurrence at 8 weeks, with a sustained clinical response through 6 months, in an open-label phase 3 cohort of patients representative of real-world clinical practice.

The agency has set an April 26, 2023 action date for the live microbiotic therapeutic for the prevention of recurrent CDI.

Dupilumab represents the first ever approved treatment for EoE.

Treatment with guselkumab resulted in greater improvements across key clinical and endoscopic/histologic outcome measures at week 12 compared with placebo in patients with moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis with or without a history of inadequate response or intolerance to advanced therapy.

The median DeMeester score decreased from 32-3.7 following LTF.

Patients with ulcerative colitis treated with combination induction therapy with guselkumab plus golimumab followed by guselkumab monotherapy achieved higher rates of the several end points at week 38 as compared to either guselkumab or golimumab alone.

Twelve additional weeks of subcutaneous risankizumab induction was efficacious and well-tolerated in patients with Crohn's disease following an initial risankizumab 12-week induction dose.

Risankizumab induction relieved Crohn's disease symptoms and maintenance doses were effective in resolving abdominal pain, with other mixed findings for other patient-reported outcomes in the maintenance phase.

If approved by the FDA, RBX2660 would be the first approved live microbiota therapeutic for the treatment of recurrent CDI.

The COVID-19 pandemic has hurt the effort of colorectal cancer screenings.

Treatment with terlipressin led to better long-term clinical outcomes for patients with hepatorenal syndrome who received a liver transplant.

On-demand vonoprazan at all investigated doses was significantly better than placebo in providing rapid and sustained relief from heartburn episodes in patients with nonerosive reflux disease.

Weekly dupilumab 300 mg versus placebo demonstrated statistically significant, clinically meaningful improvements in histologic and endoscopic outcomes and symptoms in adults and adolescents with eosinophilic esophagitis.

The approval of risankizumab represents the first IL-23 approved for IBD.

Falloon presented new data at ACG 2022 on identifying biomarkers for pouch inflammation.

Patients with NAFLD were more likely to have comorbidities, including diabetes, hypertension, chronic respiratory disease, hypothyroidism, chronic kidney disease, sleep apnea, and hyperlipidemia.

A 30 mg dose of upadacitinib led to a 1 month longer clinical remission and approximately 20% of patients had less severe disease at 52 weeks, when compared with a 15 mg dose for patients with active ulcerative colitis.

The rate of serious infections was 5.9 events per 100 person-years in the placebo group, compared to 5.0 events in the upadacitinib 15 mg cohort and 3.2 upadacitinib 30 mg group.

In data presented during ACG, investigators found patients with malnutrition and CDI had higher mortality and increased hospitals costs compared to those without malnutrition.

The study results are consistent with previous meta-analyses that show the efficacy of FMT in patients with IBD compared to placebo.

Bezlotoxumab is a fully humanized monoclonal antibody approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in 2017 for the prevention of recurrent CDI.

Patients with the absence of urgency had significantly greater reductions in levels of inflammatory biomarkers C-reactive protein and fecal calprotectin in a cohort of patients treated with mirikizumab.

ACG represents the first major in-person conference since the COVID-19 pandemic.