Use of autologous pregnancy plasma to treat a flare of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis: case report and literature review.
A patient with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis whose disease was in remission during pregnancy underwent third-trimester plasmaphereses. The stored plasma was returned to her 1 year postpartum, when the disease flared, without beneficial results. The literature on the use of blood products in rheumatoid arthritis and pregnancy is reviewed.
Wallace
D J
DJ
Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA.
Goldfinger
D
D
Klinenberg
J R
JR
D000328:Adult; D001171:Arthritis, Juvenile / Q000628:therapy*; D001804:Blood Transfusion, Autologous; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy / Q000097:blood*