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Plasma Exchange in Patients With Severe Coronavirus Disease 2019: A Single-Center Experience

Critical Care Explorations, 2021
IMPORTANCE:. Recent evidence suggests a multilevel inflammatory syndrome as a driving factor in some of the most severely ill coronavirus disease 2019 patients with overlapping features to other hyperinflammatory or autoimmune diseases. Therefore, plasma
Christian Nusshag, MD, Christian Morath, MD, Claudius Speer, MD, Florian Kaelble, MD, Martin Zeier, MD, Monica Boxberger, MD, Elisa Schulze-Schleithoff, MD, Mascha O. Fiedler, MD, Markus A. Weigand, MD, Uta Merle, MD   +9 more
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Efficacy of three plasma exchange methods in improving renal insufficiency after kidney transplantation and the induction of plasma exchange related adverse reactions: a comparative study

Zhongguo shuxue zazhi
Objective 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, Aiping ZHANG, Baoyong TIAN, Xiuxiu WANG, Shuai PANG, Shuhong YU   +5 more
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THE EFFICACY OF PLASMA EXCHANGE IN COVID-19 PATIENTS WITH COMORBID DIABETES MELLITUS

Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, 2021
Objective: To explore the use of therapeutic plasma exchange as adjunctive therapy in COVID-19 patients with and without diabetes mellitus. Study Design: Prospective, observational study.
Komal Arshad, Zill-e-Humayun ., Sultan Mehmood Kamran, Ikram Khaliq, Muhammad Raza Asif, Saman Tanveer   +5 more
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Adverse effects of intermittent flow therapeutic plasmapheresis in neurology patients in a resource constrained setting

Global Journal of Transfusion Medicine, 2019
Introduction: Therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) aims at removing harmful substances from patient's plasma. It has become a treatment option in a variety of neurological disorders with good outcome.
Sukanya Baruah, Sundar Periyavan
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Conventional Therapeutic Plasma Exchange Versus Low Volume Plasma Exchange in Chronic Pathologies: Potential Benefit in Alzheimer’s Disease

Plasmatology, 2022
Conventional therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) is aimed at removing pathological agents from circulation using a medical device which separates out plasma from other components of blood.
Ginés Escolar MD, PhD, Antonio Páez MD, Joan Cid MD, PhD   +2 more
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Therapeutic plasma exchange in hypertriglyceridemic patients

TURKISH JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES, 2019
High triglyceride (TG) levels are associated with increases in atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CVD), hepatic steatosis, and pancreatitis. Acute pancreatitis is a condition with high mortality. Therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) in the treatment of hypertriglyceridemic pancreatitis (HTGP) is a rapid and effective treatment modality. In this study,
Ilgın YILDIRIM ŞİMŞİR, Utku Erdem SOYALTIN, Banu SARER YÜREKLİ, Mehmet ERDOĞAN, Şevki ÇETİNKALP, Füsun SAYGILI, Ayhan DÖNMEZ, Ahmet Gökhan ÖZGEN   +7 more
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Role of therapeutic plasma exchange in neuromyelitis optica: A case series

Global Journal of Transfusion Medicine, 2022
Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) is an inflammatory demyelinating disease of the optic nerves and spinal cord and generally has a relapsing course. It is an autoimmune demyelinating disorder of the central nervous system caused by the binding of aquaporin-4 ...
Rashmi Parashar, Amit Sharma, Ankit Sharma   +2 more
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Immunotherapies in Rasmussen’s Encephalitis

Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 2004
Corticosteroids, IV immunoglobulins (IVIg), cyclophosphamide, therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE), and protein A IgG immunoadsorption (PAI) were evaluated in 15 patients with confirmed Rasmussen’s encephalitis (RE) and reported from various centers in ...
J Gordon Millichap
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Vascular access for therapeutic plasma exchange [PDF]

Transfusion, 2018
Therapeutic plasma exchange is an apheresis modality in which plasma is separated from the blood cellular components ex vivo, discarded, and replaced with an isosmotic fluid (most commonly 5% albumin) to maintain appropriate oncotic pressure in the patient. Therapeutic plasma exchange is used in the treatment of many diseases and indications.
Marisa B. Marques, Tina S. Ipe
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Predictors of complications in therapeutic plasma exchange

Journal of Clinical Apheresis, 2009
AbstractPlasma exchange (PE) is used for blood purification to modulate proteins involved in pathological processes. As the number of patients receiving PE treatment and the heterogeneity of the underlying diseases is steadily increasing, we evaluated the most frequent complications and analyzed causes leading to adverse reactions. 883 PE procedures in
Peter Bramlage, Michael Koziolek, Gerhard A. Müller, Antonia Zapf, Antonia Zapf, Katharina Schröder, Katharina Ahrens, Carsten P. Bramlage   +7 more
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