...Erwin Strasser Background: Therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) is a well-known apheresis technology since many years and is available worldwide. Myasthenia gravis is one of the first neurological diseases successfully treated with TPE. TPE is also frequently applied in acute inflammatory...

... underwent plasma exchange every 48 h for 11 weeks resulting in delivery of a viable infant. Placental blood flow was improved after complete absence of end-diastolic flow in the fetal umbilical artery. Conclusion: Scheduled plasmapheresis every 48 h can be considered in select cases of antiphospholipid...

.... Case Report: An 8-year boy presented with limbs weakness and complete loss of vision and was resistant to steroid therapy. He was further treated with plasma exchange and showed full recovery from the neurological deficit. Conclusion: Therapeutic plasma exchange appears to be effective in ADEM patients...

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...Stefan Jenni; Marcel Adler; Simone Lanz; Behrouz Mansouri Taleghani; Emanuel R. Christ Summary Background: Pharmacodynamic studies and data concerning adaptation of thyroid substitution in patients with substituted hypothyroidism during plasma exchange (PE) is not available. Case Report: We...

... further. Antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) is still an unsolved problem in thoracic organ TX. An essential pillar of antihumoral therapy are the extracorporeal procedures like plasmapheresis (PP), therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE), and immunoadsorption (IA), because only they have the ability to remove...

...N.A. Smith; M. Watts; A.W. Simpson; B.J. Boughton 15 patients underwent plasma exchange using a standard 170-μm in-line filter with or without an additional 40-μm microaggregate filter in the return circuit. The mean platelet count fall immediately after plasma exchange in 15 patients was (54 ± 6...

...M. Zoppi; R. Oppliger; U. Althaus; U. Nydegger A 53-year-old man with abnormally elevated cold agglutinins was treated successfully by plasma exchange so that he was able to sustain coronary artery surgery and extracorporeal circulation. Two plasma exchanges, consisting in the exchange of one...

... (both plasma exchange and plasma infusions), prednisone, intravenous immunoglobulin, and antiplatelet agents. Twelve patients achieved remission (92.3%). One patient died from cerebral hemorrhage. Vincristine was administered to 5 patients who did not respond after the first two plasmaphereses...

...F.B. Farrales; T. Summers; C. Belcher; W.L. Bayer Ten patients underwent 50–70 percent plasma exchanges using the continuous flow cell separator. The exchange material consisted of Plasma Protein Fraction (PPF) and Lactated Ringer’s Solution (LRS) instead of fresh frozen, modified or lyophilized...