Induction Therapy and Maintenance Therapy for Patients With Ulcerative Colitis

The idea here with induction is that you want to induce remission in your patients who are currently in an active flare. If the ulcerative colitis is only in the rectum and oftentimes we call this ulcerative proctitis you can get by which is topical five a s a therapy. With ulcerative colitis involving the left side of colon up to the descending colon or further beyond the spelic flexure into the transverse and potentially the entire colon those patients need oral five a sA therapy along with rectal mesalamine. The second goal is that once you induce an inter remission so that they no longer having symptoms and ideally no longer having inflammation then