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Safety and effectiveness of granulocyte and monocyte adsorptive apheresis in patients with inflammatory bowel disease in special situations: a multicentre cohort study.

Satoshi Motoya 1Hiroki Tanaka 2Tomoyoshi Shibuya 3Taro Osada 4Takayuki Yamamoto 5Hitoshi Hongo 6Chiemi Mizuno 7Daisuke Saito 8Nobuo Aoyama 9Toshihisa Kobayashi 10Hiroaki Ito 11Satoshi Tanida 12Masanori Nojima 13Seiichiro Kokuma 14Eiji Hosoi 14 , BMC Gastroenterol 2019 Nov 21;19(1):196.

Background: The available information on granulocyte and monocyte adsorptive apheresis (GMA) in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) under special situations remains unclear. We conducted a retrospective, multicentre cohort study to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of GMA in patients with IBD under special situations.

Methods: This study included patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) or Crohn’s disease who had at least one special situation feature and who had received GMA between November 2013 and March 2017. The incidence of adverse events (AEs) was compared in relation to the special situation, and patient background factors related to an AE were identified. For patients with UC, clinical remission was defined as a partial Mayo score of ≤2.

Results: A total of 437 patients were included in this study. The incidence of AEs among the elderly patients (11.2%) was similar in all patients (11.4%), whereas the incidences of AEs in patients on multiple immunosuppressant medications (15.2%), patients with anaemia (18.1%) and paediatric/adolescent patients (18.9%) were higher than that in all patients (11.4%). In multivariate analysis, anaemia and concomitant immunosuppressant medications were independently associated with the incidence of AEs. Clinical remission was achieved in 46.4% of the patients with UC.

Conclusions: The incidence of AEs in the elderly patients was not higher than that in all patients, whereas the incidence of AE was higher in patients with anaemia and those on multiple immunosuppressant medications than that in all patients. GMA is a safe treatment option in elderly patients with IBD.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31752695/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6873503/pdf/12876_2019_Article_1110.pdf

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