Among 134 adults with SBS-IF, 16 gained oral or enteral autonomy after median PS dependence of 5 years and teduglutide treatment of 89 weeks.
In plain wordsIn adults with SBS-IF, some patients achieved independence from support during teduglutide treatment.
- Peptide
- Teduglutide
- Outcome
- Not applicableOral or enteral autonomy
- Study
n = 134
- Outcome group
- Intensive care and hospital outcomes · Gastrointestinal
- Studied dose
- 0.05 mg/kg/d · Median 89 weeks among patients achieving autonomyAs given in this study (human).
Measurements
- Patients gaining oral or enteral autonomy
- 16 patients
- of 134 patients; post hoc pooled analysis
Source sentences
Of 134 patients, 16 gained oral or enteral autonomy after a median of 5 years of PS dependence and 89 weeks of teduglutide treatment.
2 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
Post hoc analysis of adult patients who achieved complete PS independence during treatment with teduglutide 0.05 mg/kg/d.
Descriptive statistics were used; no between-group comparisons were performed because of the small sample size and lack of comparator.