Therapeutic Apheresis in Neurological, Nephrological and Gastrointestinal diseases

Therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) is a process in which plasma containing antibodies, immune complexes, inflammatory moderators, paraproteins and other toxins which are believed to be the cause of disease is removed from a patient. TPE is the first-line treatment (category I, level 1A) in all forms of Acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy disease (axonal, demyelinating and miller-fisher variant) as well as in acute myasthenic crisis, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy and Paraproteinemic neuropathies(category I, level 1B).

Source: Transfusion and Apheresis Science - April 18, 2019 Category: Hematology Authors: Azita Chegini, Sanaz Ahmadi Karvigh, Maryam Rahbar, AliReza Sharifi Rayeni Source Type: research