Journal of Clinical Medicine (Jul 2022)

Performance of Screening Strategies for Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Results from the ENEIDA Registry of GETECCU

  • Sabino Riestra,
  • Carlos Taxonera,
  • Yamile Zabana,
  • Daniel Carpio,
  • María Chaparro,
  • Jesús Barrio,
  • Montserrat Rivero,
  • Antonio López-Sanroman,
  • María Esteve,
  • Ruth de Francisco,
  • Guillermo Bastida,
  • Santiago García-López,
  • Miriam Mañosa,
  • María Dolores Martin-Arranz,
  • José Lázaro Pérez-Calle,
  • Jordi Guardiola,
  • Fernando Muñoz,
  • Laura Arranz,
  • José Luis Cabriada,
  • Mariana Fe García-Sepulcre,
  • Mercè Navarro,
  • Miguel Ángel Montoro-Huguet,
  • Elena Ricart,
  • Fernando Bermejo,
  • Xavier Calvet,
  • Marta Piqueras,
  • Esther Garcia-Planella,
  • Lucía Márquez,
  • Miguel Mínguez,
  • Manuel Van Domselar,
  • Luis Bujanda,
  • Xavier Aldeguer,
  • Beatriz Sicilia,
  • Eva Iglesias,
  • Guillermo Alcaín,
  • Isabel Pérez-Martínez,
  • Valeria Rolle,
  • Andrés Castaño-García,
  • Javier P. Gisbert,
  • Eugeni Domènech,
  • on behalf of the ENEIDA registry from GETECCU

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm11133915
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 13
p. 3915

Abstract

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(1) Aims: Patients receiving antitumor necrosis factor (anti-TNF) therapy are at risk of developing tuberculosis (TB), usually due to the reactivation of a latent TB infection (LTBI). LTBI screening and treatment decreases the risk of TB. This study evaluated the diagnostic performance of different LTBI screening strategies in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). (2) Methods: Patients in the Spanish ENEIDA registry with IBD screened for LTBI between January 2003 and January 2018 were included. The diagnostic yield of different strategies (dual screening with tuberculin skin test [TST] and interferon-ץ-release assay [IGRA], two-step TST, and early screening performed at least 12 months before starting biological treatment) was analyzed. (3) Results: Out of 7594 screened patients, 1445 (19%; 95% CI 18–20%) had LTBI. Immunomodulator (IMM) treatment at screening decreased the probability of detecting LTBI (20% vs. 17%, p = 0.001). Regarding screening strategies, LTBI was more frequently diagnosed by dual screening than by a single screening strategy (IGRA, OR 0.60; 95% CI 0.50–0.73, p p p < 0.001). The highest diagnostic performance for LTBI (29%) was obtained by combining early and TST/IGRA dual screening strategies in patients without IMM. (4): Conclusions: Both early screening and TST/IGRA dual screening strategies significantly increased diagnostic performance for LTBI in patients with IBD, with optimal performance achieved when they are used together in the absence of IMM.

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