Treating inflammatory bowel disease by adsorptive leucocytapheresis: A desire to treat without drugs

Figure 9 Colonoscopy images showing deep and extensive colonic lesions together with inflammatory polyps and contact bleeding. Typical colonoscopic images from patients with severely damaged mucosal tissue (A), granulocyte/monocyte apheresis non-responders (B). However, most patients with the entry mucosal damage seen in this figure are medication refractory and unlikely to respond to granulocyte and monocyte apheresis, some opt for colectomy.