Susannah Cahalan
In order to treat her disease, she was given an assortment of different steroids, infusions, and plasmapheresis. She made a ...
Darou Pakhsh
The company formed a plasmapheresis joint venture with a German medical firm, Biotest AG, in early 2004. Darou Pakhsh is listed ...
Human T-lymphotropic virus 1
Therapies studied include corticosteroids, plasmapheresis, cyclophosphamide, and interferon, which may produce a temporary ...
Exchange transfusion
Plasmapheresis Neonatal red cell transfusion Hemolytic disease of the newborn Exchange transfusion in sickle cell disease " ...
Jehovah's Witnesses and blood transfusions
Plasmapheresis, wherein blood is withdrawn and filtered, having the plasma removed and substituted, and returned to the patient ...
Neuritis
Treatment consists of corticosteroids, with IV immunoglobulon or plasmapheresis as a bridge treatment until symptoms respond to ... Treatment of acute optic neuritis involves corticosteroids, plasmapheresis, and IV immunoglobulins in additions to disease ... plasmapheresis or IVIG. Metabolic abnormalities and deficiencies in certain vitamin, particularly B vitamins, are associated ...
Contaminated haemophilia blood products
Plasma Economy, A plasmapheresis campaign in China where they exchanged blood plasma for money and resulted in contamination. ... much of which was collected by commercial paid-donor plasmapheresis prior to routine HIV testing, often in U.S. cities that had ...
Anti-AQP4 disease
Plasmapheresis can be an effective treatment when attacks progress or do not respond to corticosteroid treatment. Clinical ...
Systemic scleroderma
Some evidence indicates that plasmapheresis (therapeutic plasma exchange) can be used to treat the systemic form of scleroderma ...
Jesica Santillan
Upon discovery of the error, the transplant team used immunosuppressant drugs and plasmapheresis to prevent immediate organ ...
Whatever It Takes (House)
When John becomes unresponsive and almost comatose, House suspects Waldenström's and John is treated with plasmapheresis and ...
Erythropoietic protoporphyria
Plasmapheresis can also decrease the levels of protoporphyrin in plasma, however its use in treating acute episodes is ...
Multifocal motor neuropathy
Steroid treatment (prednisone) and plasmapheresis are no longer considered to be useful treatments(not usually some pt highly ...
Morvan's syndrome
Plasmapheresis alone or in combination with steroids, sometimes also with thymectomy and azathioprine, have been the most ... However, this does not always work, as failed response to steroids and to subsequently added plasmapheresis have been reported ... Others have required a combination of plasmapheresis and long term immunosuppression, although in one of these cases the ... In another case, symptomatic improvement with plasmapheresis, thymectomy, and chronic immunosuppression provide further support ...
Acquired haemophilia
... immunoadsorption and plasmapheresis. All patients diagnosed with AHA should receive immunosuppressive therapy immediately ...
Cataplexy
Plasmapheresis: should be similar with IVIgs but it is more invasive and for it even less data is available. Immunoadsorption ...
Anti-VGKC-complex encephalitis
Case series have been published where treatment has consisted of combinations of IVIG, plasmapheresis, glucocorticoids/other ...
Chronic relapsing inflammatory optic neuropathy
... for 3-5 days or plasmapheresis are given to restore visual function. 2. Intermediate phase: Oral steroids (typically prednisone ...
Vijendra K. Singh
... plasmapheresis, and sphingomyelin." Singh V. K., Lin SX, Newell E, Nelson C. (2002). "Abnormal measles-mumps-rubella antibodies ...
Tumefactive multiple sclerosis
... followed by plasmapheresis and cyclophosphamide in non-responsive cases Plasmapheresis has been reported to work even in the ... Shailee Shah, Sharon Stoll, Thomas Leist, Plasmapheresis in Corticosteroid-Resistant Acute Disseminated Demyelination: Report ...
Dermatomyositis
Before the advent of modern treatments such as prednisone, intravenous immunoglobulin, plasmapheresis, chemotherapies, and ...
Paxillus involutus
Plasmapheresis reduces the circulating immune complexes in the blood which cause the hemolysis, and may be beneficial in ...
PANDAS
... "insufficient evidence to support or refute the use of plasmapheresis", for treating OCD and tics "in the setting of PANDAS". ... Plasmapheresis in neurologic disorders: report of the Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American ... "inadequate data to determine the efficacy of plasmapheresis" and " ...
Extracorporeal
Apheresis Autotransfusion Hemodialysis Hemofiltration Plasmapheresis Extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal Extracorporeal ...
Greg Autry
He coded 6502 assembly for the Autopheresis C plasmapheresis system, a machine that extracts plasma and platelets from whole ...
Amiodarone induced thyrotoxicosis
... that does not respond to treatment regardless of the subtype will likely have to consider alternatives such as plasmapheresis ...
Nobody's Fault (House)
... his wife and tells her that her husband has a lymph node tumor and requires full body radiation therapy and plasmapheresis. ...
Central venous catheter
Specialized treatment - interventions such as hemodialysis, plasmapheresis, transvenous cardiac pacing, and invasive ...
Canadian Blood Services
Collection services vary across Canada, but typical services include: whole blood collection, plasmapheresis, plateletpheresis ...
Plasma Economy
In plasmapheresis, blood plasma is taken from donors, while the remaining blood constituents such as red blood cells are ... Plasma Economy (Chinese: 血浆经济) was a 1991-1995 plasmapheresis campaign by the Henan provincial government in China, in which ... where numerous plasmapheresis stations were built. The selling of blood plasma were seen by locals as a method to reduce ...