Journal of Gastrointestinal & Digestive System
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Review Article

Adacolumn Therapeutic Leucocytapheresis for Ulcerative Colitis: Clinical and Endoscopic Features of Responders and Unresponders to this Nonpharmacologic Intervention

Tomotaka Tanaka^1*, Hiroyuki Hanai H² and Ingvar Bjarnason³

¹Akitsu Prefectural Hospital, Akitsu-cho, Hiroshima, Japan

²Hamamatsu South Hospital, Hamamatsu, Japan

³Department of Gastroenterology, King’s College Hospital, London, UK

*Corresponding Author:

Tomotaka Tanaka MD
Akitsu Prefectural Hospital
4388 Akitsu-cho
Hiroshima 739-2402, Japan
Tel: 81 846450055
Fax 81 823740371
E-mail: tomotaka@c.do-up.com

Received date: October 13, 2011; Accepted date: November 30, 2011; Published date: December 02, 2011

Citation: Tanaka T, Hanai HH, Bjarnason I (2011) Adacolumn Therapeutic Leucocytapheresis for Ulcerative Colitis: Clinical and Endoscopic Features of Responders and Unresponders to this Non-pharmacologic Intervention. J Gastrointest Dig Syst 1:104. doi: 10.4172/2161-069X.1000104

Copyright: © 2011 Tanaka T, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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