IVIg works as well as plasmapheresis when started within two weeks of the onset of symptoms, and has fewer complications.
22.
The most common component collected is plasma via plasmapheresis, but red blood cells and platelets can be collected by similar methods.
23.
Plasmapheresis is frequently used to collect source plasma that is used for manufacturing into medications much like the plasma from whole blood.
24.
The devices used are very similar to the devices used for therapeutic plasmapheresis, and the potential for citrate toxicity is similar.
25.
Plasmapheresis reduces the circulating immune complexes in the blood which cause the hemolysis, and may be beneficial in improving the outcome.
26.
In another case, symptomatic improvement with plasmapheresis, thymectomy, and chronic immunosuppression provide further support for an autoimmune or paraneoplastic basis.
27.
He finds his wife and tells her that her husband has a lymph node tumor and requires full body radiation therapy and plasmapheresis.
28.
For cases without a known cause, treatment involves suppression of the immune system with corticosteroid treatment, intravenous immunoglobulin, or plasmapheresis.
29.
Case series have been published where treatment has consisted of combinations of IVIG, plasmapheresis, glucocorticoids / other immunosuppressant drugs and rituximab.
30.
Plasmapheresis can be used to treat the hyperviscosity syndrome by removing the paraprotein from the blood, although it does not address the underlying disease.
