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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Gastroenterol. 2023 May 22;118(11):2080–2083. doi: 10.14309/ajg.0000000000002331

Table 2.

Proportion of patients undergoing colectomy after specific drug switches, evaluated at 1 year after switch in each sequence

Colectomy after
First Switch
Colectomy after
Second Switch
Colectomy after
Third Switch
n % n % n %
anti-TNF to anti-TNF 236/1895 12 32/193 17 3/27 11
anti-TNF to vedolizumab 103/980 11 44/251 18 5/29 17
anti-TNF to tofacitinib 7/101 7 5/29 17 2/17 12
anti-TNF to ustekinumab 5/107 5 2/41 5 1/7 14
Vedolizumab to other 39/214 18 25/145 17 17/58 29
Tofacitinib to other 1/17 6 6/24 25 2/15 13
Ustekinumab to other 1/11 9 2/12 17 0/8 0

Anti-tumor necrosis factor alpha (Anti-TNF)

Note: tofacitinib approved for ulcerative colitis in 2018, ustekinumab approved for ulcerative colitis 2019