Safety and Tolerability of Accelerated Infliximab Infusions in Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

Ma, Danning; Wong, Wendy; Aviado, Jeremie; Rodriguez, Cesar; Wu, Helen · Am J Gastroenterol · 2019

retrospective_cohort · Level III

Where this comes from

Abstract

Infliximab for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is FDA-approved to be administered 2 h or more. We adopted a new protocol to infuse infliximab over 1 h and in this study, we aimed to determine the safety of a 1-h infusion. This retrospective cohort included adult IBD patients who received infliximab between June and December 2017 and compared reaction rates of 1-h maintenance infusions to that of 2-h maintenance infusions. A total of 551 infusions were administered to 179 patients. The infusion groups demonstrated no significant differences in reaction rates. Infliximab infusion over 1 h is well-tolerated.

Medical subject headings