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Ten years experience with therapeutic apheresis in a community hospital
Author(s) -
Kornfeld Peter,
Fox Sondra,
Maier Karen,
Mahjoub Mazen
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of clinical apheresis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.697
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1098-1101
pISSN - 0733-2459
DOI - 10.1002/jca.2920070205
Subject(s) - medicine , plasmapheresis , apheresis , hyperviscosity syndrome , retrospective cohort study , therapeutic plasma exchange , myasthenia gravis , surgery , therapeutic effect , pediatrics , intensive care medicine , immunology , platelet , multiple myeloma , antibody
A retrospective study was carried out on 2,500 therapeutic hemapheresis procedures performed at a community teaching hospital from 1980 to 1990. Seventy‐six percent of the procedures consisted of plasmapheresis (PE). The most frequently treated conditions were myasthenia gravis (MG), Guillain‐Barré syndrome (GB), hyperviscosity (HV), and thrombotic thrombocytopenia purpura (TTP). Therapeutic results and clinical implications for these four conditions are discussed. © 1992 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.