Plasmapheresis (from the Greek πλάσμα, plasma, something molded, and ἀφαίρεσις aphairesis, taking away) is the removal, treatment, and return or exchange...

surgical removal of the thymus may improve symptoms in certain cases. Plasmapheresis and high-dose intravenous immunoglobulin may be used during sudden flares...

There are several categories of component collections: Plasmapheresis – blood plasma. Plasmapheresis is useful in collecting FFP (fresh frozen plasma) of...

(1.025 g/ml). Blood serum is blood plasma without clotting factors. Plasmapheresis is a medical therapy that involves blood plasma extraction, treatment...

interview, Lindner explained: "I did a blood cleanse twice .... I did plasmapheresis, which removes heavy metals and all that stuff." He had decided to undergo...

damage. Methods of treatment include intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG), plasmapheresis, and corticosteroids. Immunoglobulin samples are obtained from a large...

sensory symptoms. Plasmapheresis and intravenous immunoglobulins (IVIG) are the two main immunotherapy treatments for GBS. Plasmapheresis attempts to reduce...

immune system such as corticosteroids and cyclophosphamide, and with plasmapheresis, in which the antibodies are removed from the blood. The disease was...

Treatment fluorinated steroids, beta agonists, IVIG, HCQ, pace maker implantation and maternal plasmapheresis. Frequency 1 child in every 15000-20000...

CSL Plasma is a plasmapheresis company which claims to be one of the largest companies of its kind in the world. It is a subsidiary of CSL Limited, a biotechnology...

Dr Josep A. Grifols Lucas was the first researcher to publish the plasmapheresis procedure in 1952. The company introduced its liquid IVIG product into...

thrombotic TTP, as it fuels the coagulopathy. Since the early 1990s, plasmapheresis has become the treatment of choice for TTP. This is an exchange transfusion...

therapy; fewer than half in the United States train in the provision of plasmapheresis. Only pediatric trained physicians are able to train in pediatric nephrology...

most of the reported cases, the treatment options were very similar. Plasmapheresis alone or in combination with steroids, sometimes also with thymectomy...

In more extreme cases, the use of immunosuppressive drugs and even plasmapheresis may be considered. The initial discovery of the disease is credited...

Treatment of TTP was revolutionized in the 1980s with the application of plasmapheresis. According to the Furlan–Tsai hypothesis, this treatment works by removing...

reveals dilation of retinal veins and flame shaped retinal hemorrhages. Plasmapheresis may be used to decrease viscosity in the case of myeloma, whereas leukapheresis...

supportive care and may include dialysis, steroids, blood transfusions, or plasmapheresis. About 1.5 per 100,000 people are affected per year. Less than 5% of...

and other treatments include corticosteroids (e.g., prednisone), and plasmapheresis (plasma exchange) which may be prescribed alone or in combination with...

Plasma Economy (Chinese: 血浆经济) was a 1991–1995 plasmapheresis campaign by the Henan provincial government in China, in which blood plasma was extracted...

used to spread passive immunity to many diseases via blood donation (plasmapheresis). For example, convalescent serum, passive antibody transfusion from...

cataplexy was improved and the orexin levels started to normalise. Plasmapheresis: should be similar with IVIgs but it is more invasive and for it even...

insufficiency is adequately treated while minimizing the risk of side effects. Plasmapheresis removes cytokines, antibodies, and thyroid hormones from the plasma...

IUT alone group. IVIG and plasmapheresis together can reduce or eliminate the need for an IUT. Plasmapheresis – Plasmapheresis aims to decrease the maternal...

attacks that do not respond to corticosteroids might be treatable by plasmapheresis. Multiple disease-modifying medications were approved by regulatory...

transfusions, massive transfusions, incompatibility work up, therapeutic plasmapheresis, cellular therapy, irradiated blood therapy, leukoreduced and washed...

produced by the lymphoma cells causes the blood to become so thick that plasmapheresis is performed to remove the protein. Watchful waiting may be appropriate...

Packed red blood cells transfusion Fresh frozen plasma transfusion Plasmapheresis of various kinds, including plasma exchange Autohemotherapy, with autologous...

have been trialed; techniques such as hemodialysis, hemoperfusion, plasmapheresis, and peritoneal dialysis have occasionally yielded success but overall...

severity of the reaction. Prednisone may be used in severe cases. Use of plasmapheresis has also been described. Serum sickness is becoming less common over...