TY - JOUR T1 - Mesalazine as a maintenance treatment in Crohn’s disease JF - Gut JO - Gut SP - 143 LP - 143 DO - 10.1136/gut.42.1.143-c VL - 42 IS - 1 AU - L R SUTHERLAND AU - A H STEINHART Y1 - 1998/01/01 UR - http://gut.bmj.com/content/42/1/143.3.abstract N2 - Editor,—We read with interest the occasional viewpoint by Sahmoud and Mary (Gut1997;40:284–5). As is too often the case in such reviews, the authors have failed to identify all of the relevant literature pertinent to the topic: the maintenance of remission or prevention of recurrence of Crohn’s disease. For example, with regard to azathioprine, rather than two trials of treatment, actually six trials (including the NCCDS Parts I … ER -