Hearty and well deserved congrats to my friend
@ebtapper
on being named
Academic Director of Hepatology
@UMichGIHep
@MichiganLiver
Dedicated dad, and every bit as hard working, intellectual and witty as he appears.
If you don't know him - get to meet him.
SQ VDZ approved for UC by
@US_FDA
Sept 27, 2023
Data in
@AGA_Gastro
(VISIBLE1 Trial) 👇🏾
1. IV wk 0, 2 --> SQ EOW maintenance
2. IV maint. = SQ maint. for endpoints.
3. Check the diagram below the title. Done.
Get a dog, they said.
Good for the soul, they said.
They didn’t mention cleaning up vomit and poo inside, or that your kids won’t help.
He’s a rescue with anxiety and IBD. Karma for an child psychiatrist married to an IBD-ologists.
Aging in
#IBD
is starting to get the attention it deserves! 👇🏾
I am very pleased to present my friend
@AdamFayeMD
discuss where we’re going
@UMichGIHep
#GIGrandRounds
When: Tuesday, May 16, 730-830 AM EST
How:
After losing response to first line agent, 2nd agents have ⬇️ efficacy in CD. Some think 1st agent changes biology.
I don't. I think it selects refractory patients.
@AGA_CGH
supports that effective agents are effective 2nd.
▶️UPA works in CD. Done.
What defines ‘severe’
#IBD
?
It’s critical to distinguish ‘severe’ presentation from longitudinally ‘severe’ dz
‘Severe’
#IBD
= hard to define.
this
@LancetGastroHep
is a great start 👇🏾
✅it, and let me know what you 💭
🟢it’s short, to look at it
If you are a GI fellow, or anyone interested in
#IBD
The by
@Bealoquebea
is a must.
Encyclopedic catalogue of IBD medication trials…..by year…..with links!
It is our honor to host Dr. Micheal Camilleri for
@UMichGIHep
#GIGrandrounds
in honor of our former chief - Dr. Chung Owyang!
Please consider joining us and
@JBrandlerMD
!
When: 5/10, 730 AM EST
Who: Everyone
How:
▶️Patient was doing great on IFX for
#Crohns
▶️Insurance ⬆️ co-pay to 20% of the cost!!!!
▶️Patient can’t afford - now with multiple strictures through budesonide/MTX
👉🏾insurance is supposed spread risk to cover ill pts - not leave them stranded!!!
👉🏾forkin ridiculous! 🤬🤬
Covid-19 + fecal shedding-fresh DATA in Lancet GI
- 74 p with respiratory + fecal sampling
Take home:
▶️55% with fecal shedding
▶️shedding mean = 28 d >>> 16 d respiratory shedding (+)
➡️fecal shedding through convalescence
➡️ use caution GI friends!
Interesting studies on pre-clinical diagnosis of IBD.
@PREDICTIBD
with this in
@CellRepMed
▶️ drawn from a geographic area = ⬇️ bias
▶️ typical labs in future IBD > Cntl. 👇🏾
🟡 The 'catch'.......labs are in normal range.....but look at the trends.
Congrats to
@UMichGIHep
graduates today
It’s a honor and a pleasure to have worked with you all
@JBrandlerMD
@Kevin_D_Platt
, Anand, Bharat, Megan, Edward and Sameer
I look forward to calling you all colleagues!
CONGRATS 🎉🎊🍾!
Guidance on diet in IBD in
@AGA_Gastro
@AmerGastroAssn
by my friend
@JHashashMD
👇🏾
4 points
▶️Mediterranean diet = winner
⏺️we have such little data on diet and IBD
⏺️we have even less data on adherence to diet!
✅What’s your advice to patients?
Absolutely love this thread on Curcumin for arthritis
Long story - study failed, but to me, the lesson is the disconnect between hope that some ‘natural’ things work, and reality that most don’t.
Check it for your self 👇🏾
Ok listen to this.
It's about a new study on curcumin.
This is the largest clinical study that looked at benefits of curcumin (bioactive compound in turmeric) for persons with rheumatoid arthritis.
This was not a run-of-the-mill study. This was well-designed, beautifully
1/3
@eamonnquigleymd
this study is awesome.
⏺️Some genes = ⬆️ risk for IBD
⏺️ key risk gene = ⬆️ ETS2
⏺️ETS2 = KEY inflammation gene
▶️ETS2 = ⬆️ inflammatory IBD genes in macs
🟢ETS2 can be blocked = New tx? = WOW
Full paper in
@nature
in 2/3 👇
UPA for CD, TONS of data
@NEJM
▶️ 12 + 52 wk; 15 or 30 mg for maint.
▶️SES-CD across trials to start ~14, no strictures
🟢12 wk 🔦 Res diff ~30%!
🟢52 wk 🔦 Rem diff ~14 or 24%!!
🔴dose depen. 'hepatic d/o', ⬆️VZV, CK + ⬇️ CBC
💭 positioning?
1/2
Lots JAKis coming.
See
#2
for quic primer on JAKs
Latest in
@AGA_CGH
👇🏾
▶️P2b, 2 drugs: JAK3i and JAK1/TYK2i
🟢⬇️Mayo at wk 8 = -4.6 with the most interesting agent - ritlecitinib
🟢skip to Fig 2 👇🏾
Hats off to
@EdwardLoftus2
on helping patients with
#IBD
maintain their disease👇🏾
▶️complex story - on dual therapy, and pushing boundaries to maintain remission
▶️insurance practices for deciding approval are shady, and compromise unbiased assessments (and I’m being nice)
New: After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims.
On IBD inpatient this week, conundrum arose.
⏺19 y/o, pregnant, ASUC
▶️poorly controlled before pregnancy
▶️preg unexpected —> severe flare, CRP ⬆️with IV steroids
⏺next step? IFX? Cyclo? UPA?
Thoughts? + what do you tell her about risk for ✂️?
Perianal fistulas in
#CD
= bad news.
✅this it👇🏾in
@eClinicalMed
@LancetGastroHep
⏺typical approach = setons + aTNFs
▶️setons/aTNF + ✂️ > no ✂️
🟢 42% healing vs 18%!!!!
✅maybe ✂️ closure should be used more often?
IM residents! - consider
@UMichGIHep
for your fellowship!!
✅incredible faculty
✅great research
✅supportive fellows and program directors!
▶️I’m an APD - so caveat!!!
Neat result on metabolome in
#IBD
in
@Gut_BMJ
by
@WeersmaLab
Metabolome = stuff made by the gut 🦠 + 👨🏾 in the intestine
▶️ Coffee = BIG determinant of the gut metabolome
Cool, but who would have thought?
▶️ CD resections -- also major league impact.
What can AI do for IBD endoscopy? Check it in
@AGA_Gastro
👇🏾
⏺️MES = doesn’t account for spatial distribution
🟢
@CrohnsDoc
has AI that accounts for MES + spatial extent
🟢The impact?
⬆️ability to detect = ⬇️⬇️ sample size for trials.
✅Fig 6
#Upacitinib
for UC -- I've several patients on it now.
Got FCP for a patient just now
Failed EVERYTHING - including TOF
Now on wk 6 of UPA
▶️ BMs ⬇️ 15 --> 2/d
▶️ bleeding resolved
▶️ FCP down from 1,200 --> 28!!!
WHAT WHAT! I am very pleased for my patient!
Lots of new meds, finally got to Guselkumab in
@AGA_Gastro
▶️anti-p19 abs, p2b, induction in UC
▶️prior anti-IL-23 use -> 🚫
▶️> 65% with MES = 3
🟢endo improvement c/w placebo = 18% delta
✅Fig 2.
the number of anti-IL-23s is getting🥜's!!
IMPORTANT news for
#IBD
patients on prednisone or biologics.
Heard of Euvasheld? It’s an antibody that may prevent
#Covid
infections. 👇🏾👇🏾
Talk to your doctor - you may be able to get this.
@umichmedicine
has a supply right now and are able to give it!!
📞🤳☎️ us!
1/4
GI fellows - properly interpreting trials (CTs) in
#IBD
is critical.
- Let’s talk 🔑 aspects, namely ‘end-points’
✅2 concepts:
▶️Precision = finding the same value on repeated measures
▶️Accuracy = finding the ‘right’ value
#ASUC
is at the cusp of refinement
@BenClickMD
discussed this, now in
@Gut_BMJ
👇🏾
☑️low n’s for validation
✅ADMIT CRP, Alb, UCEIS predict CS failure
✅future seems towards biologics earlier
🟢 read for yourself 👇🏾
What’s the 🏴 take
@ibdseb
?
Ever retry IFX after LOR?
Read REGAIN
@AmJGastro
👇🏾
▶️IFX restart after LOR
▶️endpoint = wk 26 CDAI < 150
🟠likely ⬇️power
✅35% response
🟢In restarts - Hcort as pre-med
🔴Do you use Hcort with IFX retrial?
🔴I don’t, should I, or is SFR a goal?
The SEQUENCE trial (Risa vs Ust) press-release = good place to talk about non-inferiority (NFI) trials.
They are complex, check 👇🏾
@NEJM
.
NFI = show NO difference, pay attention to:
▶️ margin of NFI
▶️ biases in ITT in arms
▶️ power analy/sample size
Interested in
#IBD
peds to adult transitions of care?
Wanna build a program?
✅want a unique chance to develop a program, consider joining
@ibddoctor
@JeremyAdlerMD
and me
@UMichGIHep
🟢graduating fellows welcome!
✅LMK - DM me for dets.
🟢TB12 went here, look at him now!
@ibdgijami
@DrReddyGI
@ClevelandClinic
@ibddoctor
@umfoodoc
complicated ethics, pt access + 🏥economics.
▶️pts frustrated w/o access to their provider, but we are often booked out - so no room
▶️my panel ~1,700, I’m booked to 10/2023
▶️🏥 want more pts
✅providers stuck in the middle
✅we need a better model for chronic care
Ok, I have a patient with TB reactivation on UPA
Didn’t get it on aTNF
He’s from SE Asia - so he likely had latent TB
Anyone else seeing this in JAKis?
Know what a poly-loop is?
General GIs shy away from it.
@APrabhuMD
taught me.
great tool for large polyps.
I used it today👇🏾
I’m an average endoscopist
@UMichGIHep
fellows will tell, so if I can do it - you can to.
Why are patient reported outcomes (
#PROs
) important in
#IBD
?
1) Thats the patient QoL
2)
#FDA
will require these for trials
- no good PROs for peri-anal fistulas in
#CD
- ✅ out a good start in
@Gut_BMJ
👇🏾
- 28 Qs, refined, usable in trials
Work under a ‘non-compete’ - I bet you do!
I love working
@UMich
@UMichGIHep
but IMO - non competes - especially for large health care employers is unfair.
Check this 2 min story on
@Marketplace
on
@NPR
the
@FTC
proposal to nullify them!
Special shout-out to our patient advocates from team
@ibdesis
under the umbrella org
@southasianIBD
! You all did fantastic work today! 🌟
Special thanks to two of our
#IBD
patients who fought through
#Covid
&
#typhoid
to speak at this conference. 🙏🏽
#SouthAsianIBD
Sometimes I get asked about stem-cell transplantation (SCT) for IBD
☑️
@LancetGastroHep
👇🏾
🟢bold idea + brave pts + investigators.
🔴 risk of SCT >>>> risk of IBD
🔴SCT not better than standard tx
🔴don’t trade morbidity for mortality?
Highlighting this by
@AdamFayeMD
+ team in
@AmCollegeGastro
@AmJGastro
▶️We have little guidance on✂️risk in older
#IBD
pts.
This paper 👇🏾finds:
🟠⬆️age = ⬆️risk of complications
🟠pre-op risk factors are the same
✅many older patients with
#IBD
are safe for surgery
🎉 Excited to present our work on risk factors for adverse
#postop
events in
#IBD
@AmJGastro
@AmCollegeGastro
🚨 Similar factors/odds seen for older & younger adults with IBD. Need to include these factors re: op risk for older adults (not age alone)
POR in CD is biologically interesting. Endo and surgical POR
@IBDBen
@BenClickMD
study
@AGA_CGH
▶️biologics ⬇️🔦recurrence (across risk)
▶️biologics did not ⬇️✂️in low risk for POR
🟢total n good, so why? are we bad at risk stratifying POR?
Flare with JAKi dose reduction?
Does re-esclation work?
I like what this study by
@UmaMahadevanIBD
@AGA_CGH
implies
▶️ 27% re-esclated TOF (5 --> 10 BID)
✅63% re-captured resp.
🟡Didn't recapture = severe disease
🟠n = small; biases, sure. But still.
Who in
#MedTwitter
feels better after a good run🏃🏾♂️?
- may not be in your 🧠 - or is it?
Check this
@ScienceMagazine
▶️ plasma from exercising 🐁 —> old 🐁
⬆️cognition + learning
▶️2/t liver derived protein
👉🏾
#liver
#brain
axis- amazing!! 🤓
Game-ball to my bud
@CrohnsDoc
, honored by
@CrohnsColitisFn
MI.
In a world of smart people, he’s at the top.
⏺️developed game changing AI in
#IBD
✅kind soul
✅humble
He’d kill me if he knew I posted this - but give him a shout if you see him!
👏 👏
EIMs in IBD = strong interest.
Defining an EIM = hard + imprecise. Ask
@KatieFalloonMD
.
@doc_ibd
put this in
@AGA_Gastro
.
▶️HLA genes = strong link --> maybe EIMs driven by mimicary of self antigens to gut microbiota?
IMMs/TNF management is evolving. Check it in
@AGA_CGH
👇🏾👇🏾
▶️IMM withdrawal (WD) = ⬆️TNF ADA
▶️but 🚫⬆️ in LOR
▶️risk of ADA ⬆️ in yr 1 of IMM WD
✅complex stats😐😵💫😬
🔶what’s your practice?
🔶Increasingly, I stop even w/IFX but do I have it wrong?
Interesting MA of RCTs of DCE v HD-WL for dysplasia in IBD
@DrSamirAShah1
@AmJGastro
☑️DCE > HDWL for fraction of pts with at least one dysplasia (19% v 9%)
⏺️low heterogeneity.
⏺️ implies targeted (DCE) > Rand. bx?
✅ I use NBI - what do you use?
Got stones? EUS or MRCP?
Amazing - few studies comparing them
@UMichGIHep
Check it in
@Gut_BMJ
👇🏾
▶️intermediate probability for cholidocolithiasis, then MRCP = EUS for detecting stones.
▶️Done.
If you don’t know,
@AIGHospitals
are pros.