Table 1.

Details of patients’ data

Case No.	Sex	Age (yr)	Type of disease	Anal lesion		Disease duration	Previous segmental resection	Initial onset or relapse	Hospitalization
				Fistula	Tag				On admission		Main medication	Duration of SVD (d)	On discharge
									CDAI	CRP (mg/dL)			CDAI	CRP (mg/dL)	Morphology
1	F	52	C	-	-	< 1 mo	-	I	161	0.6	Sulfasalazine	58	25	0.9	Active (CS)
2	M	22	C	+	+	4 yr and 3 mo	+	R	264	3.1	Infliximab	55	62	0	NT
3	F	21	EC	+	-	5 yr and 8 mo	-	R	133	6.3	Infliximab	48	38	0	NT
4	M	22	EC	+	-	5 yr and 3 mo	-	R	679	5.9	Infliximab	82	72	0.1	Remission (CS)
5	M	23	EC	+	-	< 2 mo	-	I	235	1.5	Infliximab	55	98	0.1	Near remission (CS)
6	M	28	C	-	-	2 mo	-	I	88	2.5	Infliximab	68	59	0.5	Near remission (CS)
7	F	77	C	-	-	1 yr and 10 mo	-	R	233	13.8	Infliximab	49	39	0	Remission (CS and BE)
8	M	30	C	+	-	6 mo	-	I	281	4.6	Infliximab	50	39	0.1	Remission (CS)
9	M	55	C	+	+	8 mo	-	I	172	1.0	Infliximab	46	67	0.5	Remission (CS and BE)
10	M	19	EC	+	-	4 mo	-	I	147	0.8	Infliximab	43	40	0	Remission (CS and BE)
11	F	21	EC	-	+	3 mo	-	I	335	6.0	Infliximab	49	47	0.3	Improved still active (CS and BE)
12	F	50	E	-	-	1 mo	-	I	488	5.1	Infliximab	43	53	0	Remission (CS)
13	M	28	C	-	-	3 mo	-	I	52	0.6	Infliximab	50	2	0	Remission (CS)
14	M	19	EC	+	+	2 yr and 1 mo	-	I	193	0.8	Infliximab	43	35	0	Near remission (CS and BE)
15	M	29	C	+	-	1 yr and 4 mo	-	I	126	0.2	Infliximab	43	8	0	Improved still active (CS)
16	M	30	C	+	-	1 yr and 1 mo	-	I	211	11.8	Infliximab	47	28	0.8	Near remission (CS and BE)
17	F	21	EC	-	+	6 yr and 2 mo	-	R	544	3.7	Infliximab	46	64	0.3	Improved still active (BE)
18	F	45	EC	-	-	13 yr	+	R, PO 21st d	143	0.2	Metronidazole	19	105	0.1	NT
19	M	21	EC	+	+	2 yr	-	I, PO 13th d	217	1.1	Metronidazole	18	166	0.1	NT
20	M	34	EC	-	-	17 yr	-	R, PO 12th d	146	0	Metronidazole	24	108	0.1	NT
21	M	25	C	-	+	13 yr	-	R, PO 17th d	372	7.1	Metronidazole	21	149	0	NT
22	F	23	EC	-	-	8 yr	-	R, PO 25th d	151	8.0	Metronidazole	83	141	0.8	NT

F: Female; M: Male; EC: Enterocolitis; C: Colitis; E: Enteritis; R: Relapse; I: Initial onset; PO: Postoperative; CDAI: Crohn's disease activity index; CRP: C-reactive protein (normal range ≤ 0.3 mg/dL); SVD: Semi-vegetarian diet; CS: Colonoscopy; BE: Barium enema study; NT: Not tested.