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New hope for patients after vedolizumab found effective to treat chronic pouchitis

by University of Oxford Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study led by Oxford researchers has found vedolizumab can induce remission in patients who have chronic pouchitis after surgery for ulcerative colitis. Twelve percent of people with ulcerative colitis need surgery to have their colon removed (colectomy). Most of those have an ileo-anal pouch surgically constructed from...