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World J Gastroenterol. Aug 14, 2020; 26(30): 4428-4441
Published online Aug 14, 2020. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v26.i30.4428
Vedolizumab for ulcerative colitis: Real world outcomes from a multicenter observational cohort of Australia and Oxford
Samba Siva Reddy Pulusu, Ashish Srinivasan, Krupa Krishnaprasad, Daniel Cheng, Jakob Begun, Charlotte Keung, Daniel Van Langenberg, Lena Thin, Tamara Mogilevski, Peter De Cruz, Graham Radford-Smith, Emma Flanagan, Sally Bell, Soleiman Kashkooli, Miles Sparrow, Simon Ghaly, Peter Bampton, Elise Sawyer, Susan Connor, Quart-ul-ain Rizvi, Jane M Andrews, Gillian Mahy, Paola Chivers, Simon Travis, Ian Craig Lawrance
Samba Siva Reddy Pulusu, Ian Craig Lawrance, Centre for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, St John of God Hospital, Subiaco 6008, Western Australia, Australia
Ashish Srinivasan, Simon Travis, Translational Gastroenterology Unit, NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, United Kingdom
Krupa Krishnaprasad, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Research Group, Queensland institute of Medical Research, Herston 4006, Queensland, Australia
Daniel Cheng, Department of Gastroenterology, Mater Hospital, Brisbane 4101, Queensland, Australia
Jakob Begun, Graham Radford-Smith, Department of Gastroenterology, Mater Hospital, South Brisbane 4101, Queensland, Australia
Charlotte Keung, Daniel Van Langenberg, Department of Gastroenterology, Eastern Health, Box Hill 3128, Victoria, Australia
Lena Thin, Department of Gastroenterology, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Murdoch 6150, Western Australia, Australia
Tamara Mogilevski, Peter De Cruz, Department of Gastroenterology, Austin Health, Heidelberg 3084, Victoria, Australia
Emma Flanagan, Sally Bell, Department of Gastroenterology, St Vincent’s Hospital, Fitzroy 3065, Victoria, Australia
Soleiman Kashkooli, Department of Gastroenterology, Northern Health, Epping 3076, Victoria, Australia
Miles Sparrow, Department of Gastroenterology, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne 3004, Victoria, Australia
Simon Ghaly, Department of Gastroenterology, St Vincent’s Hospital, Darlinghurst 2010, New South Wales, Australia
Peter Bampton, Department of Gastroenterology, Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park 5042, South Australia, Australia
Elise Sawyer, Susan Connor, Department of Gastroenterology, Liverpool Hospital, Sydney 2170, New South Wales, Australia
Quart-ul-ain Rizvi, Jane M Andrews, Department of Gastroenterology, Royal Adelaide Hospital & University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5000, South Australia, Australia
Gillian Mahy, Department of Gastroenterology, Townsville Hospital, Douglas 4814, Queensland, Australia
Paola Chivers, Institute for Health Research, University of Notre Dame, Fremantle 6160, Western Australia, Australia
Ian Craig Lawrance, School of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Western Australia, Crawley 6009, Western Australia, Australia
Author contributions: Lawrance IC is the main supervisor of the study involved in study conceptualization, funding acquisition, provision of resources, methodology design, review, editing of the manuscript and project administration; Writing up the original draft of the paper, data curation, formal analysis, manuscript editing, literature review was done by Pulusu SSR; Krishnaprasad K involved in project administration, data curation and manuscript editing; Data collection was done by Pulusu SSR, Srinivasan A, Cheng D, Keung C, Mogilevski T, Flanagan E, Sawyer E, and Rizvi Q; Data collection, project administration, supervision, manuscript revision and correction was done by Begun J, Van Langenberg D, Thin L, De Cruz P, Radford-Smith G, Bell S,, Kashkooli S, Sparrow M, Ghaly S, Bampton P, Connor S , Andrews JM, Mahy G, and Travis S; Data validation and visualization, biostatistics was done by Chivers P; all authors reviewed and approved the final manuscript.
Institutional review board statement: This study comes under the investigation into natural history of inflammatory bowel disease approved by South Metropolitan area health service.
Informed consent statement: Patients were not required to give informed consent for the study because the data obtained and used for analysis was anonymous.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All authors declare no conflict of interest related to this article.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
STROBE statement: The authors have read the STROBE Statement-checklist of items, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the STROBE Statement-checklist of items.
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Corresponding author: Ian Craig Lawrance, FRCP (Hon), MBBS, PhD, Professor, Centre for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, St John of God Hospital, 25 McCourt Street, Subiaco 6008, Western Australia, Australia. ian.lawrance@uwa.edu.au
Received: April 4, 2020
Peer-review started: April 4, 2020
First decision: April 26, 2020
Revised: July 18, 2020
Accepted: July 30, 2020
Article in press: July 30, 2020
Published online: August 14, 2020
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Core Tip

Core tip: Vedolizumab (VDZ) is a gut selective anti-integrin used for treatment of Ulcerative colitis (UC). Evidence is needed to support its use in real life setting involving multiple centers and two countries to reduce physician, site and country biases. This is a retrospective review of prospectively collected database involving 303 UC patients from Australia and Oxford, United Kingdom treated with VDZ. Clinical response was observed in 79% of patients at 3 mo and clinical remission in 56%, 62% and 60% at 3 mo, 6 mo and 12 mo respectively. Anti-tumor necrosis factor (anti-TNF) naïve patients were 1.8 times more likely to achieve remission than anti-TNF exposed and 11% of patients required colectomy by 12 mo. We concluded that VDZ is a safe and effective biologic medication used for treatment of UC.