Ten years experience with therapeutic apheresis in a community hospital.
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.
Kornfeld
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Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York.
Fox
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Maier
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Mahjoub
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001809:Blood Viscosity; D006402:Hematologic Diseases / Q000628:therapy; D006764:Hospitals, Community; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009157:Myasthenia Gravis / Q000628:therapy; D010956:Plasmapheresis; D011129:Polyradiculoneuropathy / Q000628:therapy; D011697:Purpura, Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic / Q000628:therapy; D012189:Retrospective Studies