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Lumican is overexpressed in lung adenocarcinoma pleural effusions. [PDF]
, 2015 Adenocarcinoma (AdC) is the most common lung cancer subtype and is often associated with pleural effusion (PE). Its poor prognosis is attributable to diagnostic delay and lack of effective treatments and there is a pressing need in discovering new ...
Arrigoni, Giorgio +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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EGFR inhibitor as second-line therapy in a patient with mutant RAS metastatic colorectal cancer: circulating tumor DNA to personalize treatment [PDF]
, 2018 A 47-year-old male patient presented in March 2016 to our unit with a palpable painless left supraclavicular mass. A whole-body contrastenhanced computed tomography (CT) scan revealed a left supraclavicular lymphadenopathy, transverse colon thickening ...
Cortesi, Enrico +3 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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Therapeutic plasma exchange in patients with pauciimmune vasculitis: Hospital Universitario San Ignacio experience; Bogotá, Colombia [PDF]
Revista Colombiana de Nefrología, 2014 Introduction: The vasculitis ANCAS positive, are a group of diseases with different clinical manifestations. Therapeutic plasma exchange has become an excellent tool for the treatment of these patients in specific conditions.
Juan P. Córdoba +5 more
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Vitamin A Transport Mechanism of the Multitransmembrane Cell-Surface Receptor STRA6. [PDF]
, 2015 Vitamin A has biological functions as diverse as sensing light for vision, regulating stem cell differentiation, maintaining epithelial integrity, promoting immune competency, regulating learning and memory, and acting as a key developmental morphogen ...
Kassai, Miki +4 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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Therapeutic Plasma Exchange Using Membrane Plasma Separation [PDF]
Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 2020 Therapeutic plasma exchange is a blood purification technique designed for the removal of large molecular weight toxins such as pathogenic antibodies and lipoproteins. Plasma exchange can be performed either by membrane separation or centrifugation.
Sadiq Ahmed, Andre Kaplan
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Zhongguo shuxue zazhiObjective To compare the efficacy of double filtration plasmapheresis(DFPP), centrifugal therapeutic plasma exchange(cTPE) and centrifugation-filtration plasmapheresis(CFPP) in improving renal insufficiency after kidney transplantation, as well as the ...
Defeng ZHANG +5 more
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