# Top Down Versus Step Up Strategies in Crohn's Disease

> **NCT00554710** · PHASE4 · COMPLETED · sponsor: **Belgian Inflammatory Bowel Disease Research and Development (BIRD) VZW** · enrollment: 129 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Crohn's Disease

## Interventions

- **DRUG:** infliximab+azathioprine
- **DRUG:** methylprednisolone or budesonide

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT00554710
- **Lead sponsor:** Belgian Inflammatory Bowel Disease Research and Development (BIRD) VZW
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** PHASE4
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** COMPLETED
- **Start date:** 2001-05
- **Primary completion:** —
- **Final completion:** 2004-01
- **Target enrollment:** 129 (ACTUAL)
- **Last updated:** 2007-11-07

## Collaborators

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## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00554710

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT00554710, "Top Down Versus Step Up Strategies in Crohn's Disease". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT00554710. Licensed CC0.

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