The Impact of Preoperative Anti-TNF in Surgical and Infectious Complications of Abdominal Procedures for Crohn's Disease: Controversy Still Persists

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To the Editor: We read with interest the article "Anti-tumor necrosis factor therapy is associated with infections after abdominal surgery in Crohn's disease patients", recently published in this journal, by Ali Syed et al. (1). In this paper, the authors analyzed 325 abdominal operations performed for Crohn's disease (CD) in 211 patients (150 procedures with previous anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF) therapy), and compared several outcomes regarding complications with 175 procedures without previous exposure to these agents.