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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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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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Viruses, 2021 Introduction: Since the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, multiple promising treatment modalities have been tested, however, only several of them were proven to be effective.
Ł. Krzych +3 more
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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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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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Journal of clinical apheresis, 2021 The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) has led to a major pandemic. While vaccine development moves forward, optimal treatment continues to be explored.
Wen Lu +8 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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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 Advances in Neurological Disorders, 2021 Background: Therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) is frequently used in glucocorticosteroid (GCS)-refractory multiple sclerosis (MS) relapses. Data regarding predictors of treatment response are scarce.
Stephan Blechinger +10 more
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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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