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Therapeutic Plasma Exchange in Refractory Hyperthyroidism [PDF]
European Thyroid Journal, 2020 Hyperthyroid patients who are unresponsive to medical treatment remain a challenging clinical problem.The goal of our study was to evaluate the use of therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) in hyperthyroid patients and their outcome after TPE.We retrospectively reviewed 22 patients who underwent TPE for refractory thyrotoxicosis in our institution: 13 with ...
Fabrice Menegaux +9 more
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Therapeutic plasma exchange: A study of indications and efficacy
Global Journal of Transfusion Medicine, 2018 Background and Objectives: Therapeutic plasma exchange has been in use to treat a variety of diseases and for the purpose of rational decision-making, the American Society for Apheresis has proposed guidelines for the same.
Gita Negi +5 more
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Therapeutic plasma exchange therapy in burns
Journal of Cutaneous and Aesthetic Surgery, 2023 Abstract Severe burn injury affects the body in many devastating ways, the most severe being systemic inflammatory response syndrome. This results in a myriad of effects like increasing capillary permeability, thereby fluid loss. It also causes a surge in inflammatory mediators like interleukin (IL)-6, which further increases the capillary ...
Mohan, Padmalakshmi Bharathi +9 more
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Asian Journal of Transfusion Science, 2018 Hypertriglyceridemia (HTG) is the third most significant risk factor for acute pancreatitis after gallstones and alcohol. Therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) has been considered a possible treatment for HTG-induced pancreatitis, especially in severe and ...
Swati Pabbi Mehta +5 more
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A Rare case of Guillain-Barré syndrome in pregnancy treated with plasma exchange
Asian Journal of Transfusion Science, 2014 Guillain-Barre syndromé (GBS) is an autoimmune disorder. It is rare in pregnancy as there is a decrease in cell-mediated immunity. A case of 28-year-old pregnant woman who presented with acute flaccid quadriplegia suffering from GBS is discussed in this ...
Rahul Vasudev, Tilak Raj Raina
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SAGE Open Medical Case Reports, 2020 We present a case series of three patients with COVID-19 who were admitted to our intensive care unit due to acute respiratory distress syndrome, brain infarction, pulmonary embolism, and antiphospholipid antibodies.
Abdulrahman Alharthy +4 more
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Reumatismo, 2021 An association of autoimmune hemolytic anemia with disseminated tuberculosis is an exceedingly rare entity. We describe herein a case of cold hemolytic autoimmune anemia associated with miliary tuberculosis resolved with blood transfusions, therapeutic ...
N. Belfeki +7 more
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Therapeutic plasma exchange in pregnancy: A literature review [PDF]
European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, 2021 Therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) is indicated as a treatment for a wide array of diseases, extensively addressed in the Guidelines of the American Society for Apheresis. In pregnancy, TPE is an uncommon event and application is largely based on extrapolation of efficacy and safety in a non-pregnant population.
M. Wind +6 more
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Leukemia Research Reports, 2019 Background: Sickle cell hemoglobinopathies are associated with end organ damage but very rarely present with a clinical and laboratory picture of microangiopathic hemolytic anemia (MAHA) and thrombocytopenia, characteristic of thrombotic microangiopathy (
Sreenath Kodali +3 more
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Use of plasma exchange as therapeutic tool in clinical practice [PDF]
Farmacia Hospitalaria, 2018 Objective: To descrive the use of therapeutic plasma exchange in several pathologies and its adjustment to international reference guides. Method: Observational, descriptive, retrospective study, of all the patients that received plasmapheresis between
Carlos Crespo-Diz +3 more
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