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plasmapheresis
what is 'plasmapheresis'?
Definition for plasmapheresis
Plasmapheresis (from the Greek plasma , something molded, and apheresis , taking away) is the removal, treatment, and return of (components of) blood plasma from blood circulation . It is thus an extracorporeal therapy .
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Plasmapheresis (from the Greek plasma , something molded, and apheresis , taking away) is the removal, treatment, and return of (components of) blood plasma from blood circulation . It is thus an extracorporeal therapy . The method can also be used to collect plasma for further manufacturing into a variety of medications.
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Guillain-Barre Syndrome
ascending paralysis
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Antinuclear Antibody (ANA)
Antinuclear antibody blood test used to screen for autoimmune disorders
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Plasmapheresis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Plasmapheresis (from the Greek plasma, something molded, and apheresis, taking ... Apheresis (Plasmapheresis, Plateletpheresis, Leukapheresis) - Blood transfusion ...
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Definition of plasmapheresis - NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
plasmapheresis (PLAZ-muh-feh-REE-sis) ... Plasmapheresis can be used to remove excess antibodies from the blood. Previous Definitions: ...
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Consensus Development Program ...
The Utility of Therapeutic Plasmapheresis. for Neurological Disorders ... Therapeutic plasmapheresis or therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) is a method for ...
http://consensus.nih.gov/1986/1986Plasmapheresis056html.htm
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Effect of plasmapheresis on ligand binding capacity and expression of ...
Soon after plasmapheresis there was a significant increase in E ICC binding ... Moreover, plasmapheresis reduced the level of immune complexes demonstrable in ...
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plasmapheresis Information from Drugs.com
plasmapheresis ... Or browse a complete list of drug names A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q ... Stedman's > plasmapheresis. plasmapheresis. Pronunciation: ...
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plasmapheresis
Next Term: Plasmaviridae. plasmapheresis. Broader Terms: blood treatment ... retransfused to the donor; plasmapheresis is also employed for detoxification in ...
http://crisp.cit.nih.gov/Thesaurus/00006405.htm
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Treatment of HIV neuropathy with plasmapheresis and intravenous ...
We have used plasmapheresis with or without corticosteroids in 15 patients with ... IVIG is introduced after an intensive course of 6 to 9 plasmapheresis treatments. ...
http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/MeetingAbstracts/ma?f=102202279.html
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Successful plasmapheresis for extreme hyperbilirubinemia caused by ...
Plasmapheresis was initiated and with the corticosteroids, resulted in ... The early use of plasmapheresis with corticosteroids and ursodeoxycholic should ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17483711
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What is plasmapheresis? Find the definition for plasmapheresis at WebMD
Removal of whole blood from the body, separation of its cellular elements by centrifugation, and reinfusion of them suspended in saline or some other plasma ...
http://dictionary.webmd.com/terms/plasmapheresis
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Vasculitis Treatment Plasmapheresis Steroid
Information about treatment for vasculitis and temporal arteritis. ... Other treatments may include plasmapheresis (the removal and reinfusion of blood ...
http://seniorhealth.about.com/library/conditions/blvasculitis2.htm
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Myasthenia gravis: Treatments and drugs - MayoClinic.com
Myasthenia gravis ? Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, causes, treatment of this muscle weakness disorder. ... Plasmapheresis (plaz-muh-fuh-RE-sis) ...
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/myasthenia-gravis/DS00375/D...
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Talk:Plasmapheresis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I am not sure if plasmapheresis includes the treatment and return of the plasma, ... Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Plasmapheresis" ...
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Goodpasture's syndrome--effects of plasmapheresis.
Results indicate that plasmapheresis reduces morbidity in patients with ... Plasmapheresis and immunosuppressive agents in antibasement membrane antibody ...
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The possible role of commercial plasmapheresis banks on the AIDS ...
The possible role of commercial plasmapheresis banks on the AIDS epidemic in Mexico. ... HIV infection in paid plasmapheresis donors was documented which ...
http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/MeetingAbstracts/102216857.html
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Plasmapheresis in idiopathic inflammatory myopathy...[Arch Neurol. 1981 ...
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7271533
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NIH Clinical Center: AB Plasma Donor Program
What is Plasmapheresis? Plasmapheresis is the standard procedure by which plasma is separated from whole ... How Long Does Plasmapheresis Take? ...
http://www.cc.nih.gov/blooddonor/donationtypes/ab_plasma.html
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plasmapheresis
Close Print this page. plasmapheresis. Pronunciation: plaz?m?f-?-r??sis. Removal of whole blood from the body, separation of its cellular elements by ...
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Plasmapheresis in Clinical Medicine
Plasmapheresis appears to work in some disorders by removing pathogenic ... Use of plasmapheresis and partial plasma exchange in the management of patients ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1010632
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Guillain-Barre syndrome: Treatments and drugs - MayoClinic.com
Guillain-Barre syndrome ? Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, treatment of this potentially deadly muscle disorder. ... Plasmapheresis. ...
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/guillain-barre-syndrome/DS0...
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Plasmapheresis: an effective therapy for refractory hyperthyroidism in ...
Plasmapheresis: an effective therapy for refractory hyperthyroidism in the elderly. ... Plasmapheresis was performed to control the manifestations of the hyperthyroid ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12508615?ordinalpos=8&ito...
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eMedicine - Goodpasture Syndrome : Article by Sat Sharma
Goodpasture syndrome is an eponym used to describe the triad of diffuse pulmonary hemorrhage, glomerulonephritis, and ... Plasmapheresis is generally ...
http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic923.htm
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Plasmapheresis reverses all side-effects of a cisplatin overdose ? a ...
Therefore, plasmapheresis was performed on day 5 and 6 after the last ... Anticoagulation therapy during plasmapheresis consisted of 3000 IU ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1334209
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Goodpasture syndrome : Diseases & Conditions : Discovery Health
Goodpasture syndrome is a condition in which a person's own immune system ... plasma exchange, or plasmapheresis. ... Plasmapheresis may remove proteins that ...
http://health.discovery.com/encyclopedias/illnesses.html?chr...
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The clinical effectiveness and safety of chronic plasmapheresis in ...
Plasmapheresis has been reported to benefit patients with hyperlipidemia and PBC; ... Patients underwent a mean of 63 plasmapheresis procedures over a mean of 112 ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4030709
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Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP) Information ...
Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP) ... Plasmapheresis (plasma exchange) and intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) therapy are effective. ...
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/cidp/cidp.htm
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Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Since the early 1990s, plasmapheresis has become the treatment of choice for TTP. ... Plasmapheresis may need to be continued for 1-8 weeks before patients with ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrombotic_microangiopathy,_familial
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Role of plasmapheresis in primary biliary cirrhosis.
The indications for plasmapheresis included intractable pruritus or ... The liver and spleen size were not affected by plasmapheresis, and activities of ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=3972276
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Health Services/Technology Assessment Text (HSTAT)
The Evidence-based Practice Centers develop evidence reports and technology assessments based on rigorous, comprehensive syntheses and analyses of relevant ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=hstat
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Vasculitis - 2001 National Meeting Reports - Arthritis and Arthritic ...
Explains arthritis conditions includes symptoms, causes, medications, and ... Plasma Exchange (Plasmapheresis) was reported as effective in patients who were ...
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=19114&page=2
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AIDS associated thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura: a presentation of ...
... L. TTP was diagnosed and treated with plasmapheresis and steroids. ... Plasmapheresis. Purpura, Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic. Risk Factors. Sarcoma, Kaposi ...
http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/MeetingAbstracts/ma?f=102188294.html
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How Is Hemolytic Anemia Treated?
Hemolytic anemia is a rare form of anemia in which red blood cells are destroyed ... Plasmapheresis. Plasmapheresis removes antibodies from red blood cells. ...
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/ha/ha_treatments.html
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Influence of therapeutic plasmapheresis on elimination of ceftiaxone.
... to 11 patients who underwent plasmapheresis 3 h (early group) or 15 ... We conclude that patients undergoing plasmapheresis lasting 150 min or less may ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=187925
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Treatment of intra-heptic cholestasis in primary biliary cirrhosis by ...
Treatment of intra-heptic cholestasis in primary biliary cirrhosis by long term plasmapheresis. ... underwent long term plasmapheresis for 30 months (on a ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6443835
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Protective Antigen and Toxin Neutralization Antibody Patterns in ...
Weekly to biweekly plasmapheresis was performed at the NIH Clinical Center ... Serum samples for antibody measures were collected at the time of plasmapheresis. ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pub...
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NIMH - Plasma exchange and intravenous immunoglobulin lack proven ...
A warning from researchers at NIMH ... for either plasmapheresis or IVIG in ... More importantly, both plasmapheresis and IVIG are considered to be serious ...
http://mentalhealth.about.com/library/rs/blplsm.htm?p=1
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Single-center analysis of early recurrence of nephrotic syndrome ...
Plasmapheresis or protein A adsorption has been used with some success to treat ... therapy for RNS (plasma-pheresis, cyclophosphamide); blood chemistries ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1350578
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Combined immunomodulatory therapy in autoimmune au...[Arch Neurol. 2008 ...
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations from MEDLINE and ... with plasmapheresis alone and ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18268189
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Cytapheresis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is contrasted with plasmapheresis, which is the removal of blood plasma. ... This medical treatment article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytapheresis
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Biotech company trial reports lupus treatment success
Biotech company trial reports lupus treatment success. Tuesday July 22, 2008 ... works by incorporating a new twist to the existing science of plasmapheresis ...
http://lupus.about.com/b/2008/07/22/biotech-company-trial-re...
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Recovery from Goodpasture's syndrome after immunosuppressive treatment ...
... syndrome after immunosuppressive treatment and plasmapheresis. ... in the course of the disease plasmapheresis could prove a useful addition to its ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1673280
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Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP) Publications ...
Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP) information sheet compiled by NINDS. ... NINDS Guillain-Barré Syndrome Information Page ...
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/cidp/pubs_cidp.htm
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Immunoadsorbent plasmapheresis for a patient with antiphospholipid ...
Immunoadsorbent plasmapheresis with a dextran sulphate column was used to remove ... Therefore, immunoadsorbent plasmapheresis with dextran sulphate seems to reduce ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1004672
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A case of severe acute pancreatitis, in overlap syndrome of systemic ...
... and systemic lupus erythematosus, successfully treated with plasmapheresis. ... Treatment with plasmapheresis and high-dose prednisone successfully saved her ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16767557
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Extracorporeal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Plasmapheresis. Apheresis. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) Assisted blood circulation (heart-lung machine) during open heart surgery. ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extracorporeal
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Myasthenia gravis - MayoClinic.com
Myasthenia gravis ? Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, causes, treatment of this muscle weakness disorder. ... The cause of myasthenia gravis is a ...
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/myasthenia-gravis/DS00375
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Myasthenic syndrome: effect of choline, plasmapheresis and tests for ...
Pimozide and plasmapheresis had no effect. ... Plasmapheresis and immunosuppressive drug therapy in myasthenia gravis. N Engl J Med. ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=490587
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Guillain-Barré syndrome : Diseases & Conditions : Discovery Health
Guillain-Barr? syndrome, abbreviated GBS, is believed to be an autoimmune ... Plasmapheresis removes antibodies that may be present in the bloodstream. ...
http://health.discovery.com/encyclopedias/illnesses.html?chr...
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Systemic lupus erythematosus with organic brain syndrome: serial ...
Double-filtration plasmapheresis (three sessions) was done, followed by ... Immediately after the first plasmapheresis session, memory dysfunction began to improve. ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16484747
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Persistence of antibrain antibodies in cerebrospinal fluid during ...
He then received six sessions of plasmapheresis, again without improvement. ... Treatment with plasmapheresis may fail in patients with multiple sclerosis ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1416748
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Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP) Press Releases ...
Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP) information sheet compiled by NINDS. ... National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke ...
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/cidp/press_cidp.htm
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