plasmapheresis in English

noun
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a method of removing blood plasma from the body by withdrawing blood, separating it into plasma and cells, and transfusing the cells back into the bloodstream. It is performed especially to remove antibodies in treating autoimmune conditions.
She was treated with plasmapheresis and platelet transfusions.

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1. Types include erythrocytApheresis, leukApheresis, lymphocytApheresis, plasmApheresis, and plateletpheresis.

2. We should start him on plasmapheresis.

3. Sometimes it takes a few treatments for the plasmapheresis to work.

4. The combination with preoperative plasmapheresis facilitates additional savings of homologous blood.

5. It's serious, but Guillain Barre usually responds very well to plasmapheresis.

6. Examples include: PlasmApheresis: within the plasma are contained antibodies and antigen-antibody complexes that may contribute …

7. Apheresis, therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE), and plasmApheresis are terms that often are used synonymously, but incorrectly

8. While any part of the blood can be separated out, the most common forms of Apheresis are plasmApheresis, plateletpheresis, and leukApheresis

9. Our experience shows that plasmapheresis and hemodialysis are excellent additive methods which rapidly improve clinical symptoms and may reduce morbidity and mortality in severe malaria tropica.

10. 16 To prevent this complication, calcium is infused intravenously while the patient is undergoing the plasmapheresis; in addition, calcium supplementation by mouth may also be given.

11. It is treated with medications that suppress the immune system such as corticosteroids and cyclophosphamide, and with plasmapheresis, in which the antibodies are removed from the blood.

12. Types of inpatient and outpatient Apheresis procedures provided at Inova include Extracorporeal Photopheresis (ECP), LeukApheresis (White Blood Cell Depletion), PlasmApheresis (Therapeutic Plasma Exchange), Plateletpheresis (Platelet Depletion), Red Blood …

13. Exceptions are patients suffering from thyroid storm (impending early relapse after plasmapheresis due to excess iodine) or from acute Cushing's syndrome (intractable potassium loss and alkalosis whom we have successfully transferred to surgery.

14. For example, in the United States, donors must wait eight weeks (56 days) between whole blood donations but only seven days between plateletpheresis donations and twice per seven-day period in plasmapheresis.

15. Drugs such as ketotifen, doxepin, H2-blockers, glucocorticoids, leukotriene receptor antagonists, COX-2-inhibitors, antimalarials, dapsone, sulfasalazine, antibiotics, acyclovir, nifedipine, danazol, terbutaline, warfarin, histaglobin, cyclosporine, tacrolimus, methotrexate, cyclophosphamide and intravenous immunoglobulin are reviewed as well as measures such as plasmapheresis, phototherapy, diet and psychosomatic treatment.