title: [Therapeutic plasma exchange 1996].
abstract: Therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) is an extracorporeal blood purification technique to remove large molecular weight substances. Since the late seventies TPE was used in a variety of diseases in which humoral factors may play a part in the pathogenesis. Today, accepted indications only exist for a few entities in defined situations: Anti-glomerular basement membrane antibody mediated disease, TTP/HUS, Guillain-Barré-syndrome, hyperviscosity syndrome, chronic polyneuropathy associated with IgG and IgA gammopathy, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy and myasthenia gravis.
authors.affiliation: Medizinische Klinik IV, Universitätskliniken Homburg/Saar.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Weber
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Riegel
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Köhler
mesh_terms: D001323:Autoantibodies / Q000097:blood; D001327:Autoimmune Diseases / Q000276:immunology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007165:Immunosuppression Therapy; D010265:Paraproteinemias / Q000276:immunology / Q000628:therapy*; D010951:Plasma Exchange / Q000379:methods*; D016896:Treatment Outcome
chemical_list: D001323:Autoantibodies