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Meanwhile, a form of bloodletting is being used in
NHS hospitals to treat bowel conditions such as ulcerative colitisMeanwhile, a slightly different form of bloodletting is being used to treat inflammatory bowel conditions such as
ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease.
These conditions are thought to be caused by the immune system mistakenly attacking the bowel.
This attack is orchestrated by a type of white blood cell called neutrophils. Japanese researchers found that removing neutrophils reduced damage to the gut.
This is done using a type of sticky bead that ‘pulls’ the cells out of the blood.
Beads are put into a tube, around 10cm long. The patient’s blood is removed from one arm and then passed through this tube.
The white blood cells stick to the beads, while the rest of the blood passes through back into the patient’s other arm. It all takes around an hour.
Professor Ingvar Bjarnason, gastroenterologist from
King’s College Hospital in South London, says:
‘In Japan, it is used as a first-line treatment for ulcerative colitis.
'It’s as effective as treatment with corticosteroids for severe relapse of the disease.’
In a study led by Professor Bjarnason, the
relapse rate in patients who received the treatment was just 20 per cent compared with 80 per cent for those in a placebo group.
‘Removing white cells kept the majority of people well for the next six to 12 months,’ he says.
How exactly this works is still a mystery. Only around 40 per cent of the neutrophils in the body are removed, and the white cells are back to normal levels within a couple of hours.
One theory is that the existing white blood cells have been programmed to attack the gut, but the newly made cells are not as harmful.
The treatment is offered at a number of
NHS centres across the UK. Dr Purushothaman Premchand, consultant gastroenterologist at Queen’s Hospital, Romford, was the first doctor in the UK to regularly treat patients with inflammatory bowel disease via this method and started using it at his clinic in 2008.
‘We use it on our hard-to-treat patients, and we have seen
a 70 per cent success rate in inducing remission,’ he says.
‘Some have stayed in
remission for around four years.
‘More than 10,000 patients have received this treatment across the world, and it does not seem to have any serious side-effects.’
It is not cheap — each ‘tube’ costs around £1,000, and each patient needs around five to ten sessions.
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