Fig. 1

Clinical outcomes in 72 patients up to week 14. All of the 72 eligible patients had active ulcerative colitis and were infliximab naïve at entry. *Clinical response to infliximab was evaluated at week 14, patients could be divided into three subgroups: Responders (patients who achieved a partial Mayo score of ≤ 2 with no individual subscore exceeding 1); partial-responder (patients who responded, but did not achieved a partial Mayo score of ≤ 2 points); non-responders (patients in whom the partial Mayo score increased or remained unchanged relative to week 0). Only 10 of 19 patients in the non-responder sub-group were available for evaluation at week 14