Discontinuation of therapy in inflammatory bowel disease: Current views

Table 1 Treatment goals in patients with inflammatory bowel disease

	Short/intermediate-term goals	Long-term goals
Clinical	Clinical response	Clinical remission; In children, the return of normal development is a long-term goal
Endoscopic		Endoscopic healing; Histological healing is not a defined goal of treatment in CD or UC
Laboratory	Normalization of CRP, ESR and fecal calprotectin
Quality of life	Absence of disability and normalization of health-related quality of life

CD: Crohn’s disease; CRP: C-reactive protein; ESR: Erythrocyte sedimentation rate; UC: Ulcerative colitis.