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Granulocyte and monocyte apheresis therapy for patients with active ulcerative colitis associated with COVID-19

Miki Koroku 1Teppei Omori 1Harutaka Kambayashi 1Shun Murasugi 1Tomoko Kuriyama 1Yuichi Ikarashi 1Maria Yonezawa 1Ken Arimura 2Kazunori Karasawa 3Norio Hanafusa 4Masatoshi Kawana 5Katsutoshi Tokushige 1 Intest Res. 2021 Mar 12. doi: 10.5217/ir.2020.00148.

In conclusion, our patient’s case indicates that GMA for a patient with both active UC and COVID-19 is a safe treatment option for active UC that could lead other patients in this condition to remission.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33902268/

https://irjournal.org/upload/pdf/ir-2020-00148.pdf

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