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Exploratory Study of the Effectiveness of Granulocyte and Monocyte Adsorptive Apheresis Before Initiation of Steroids in Patients with Active Ulcerative Colitis During the COVID-19 Outbreak (EXPECT Study): A Multicenter Prospective Clinical Trial
2020-07-10
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Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, safe treatment of inflammatory bowel disease is required. Granulocyte and monocyte adsorptive apheresis (GMA) has been used for therapy of steroid-dependent/refractory ulcerative colitis (UC) with few adverse events. Therefore, elucidating the effectiveness of GMA without steroids is important in the current situation. The aim of this study was to investigate the effective...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 373b04c5-8bc0-53b9-a2d2-76c142992371
- DOI
- 10.2139/ssrn.3612022
