Plasma and plasma derivatives in therapeutic plasmapheresis

SAFETY OF BLOOD AND PLASMA DERIVATIVES: PATHOGEN REDUCING TECHNOLOGIES

   ABSTRACT  Human blood and blood products is the source of a wide range of medicinal products used for the treatment and prevention of a variety of injuries and disease. Despite stringent routine measures and filters employed, residual pathogen infectivity remains an important challenge in the field of blood transfusion. In this article various measures and technologies that can be applied in...

Self Sufficiency In Plasma And Plasma Derived Medicines

Therapeutic Plasmapheresis in Treatment

.AMONG the many complications suffered by patients with Waldenstriim’s macroglobulinemia are those related to increased blood viscosity.16 These include vascular stasis, retinopathy, and a bleeding disorder due to acquired functional thrombopathy.4 T h e latter is considered due to coating of platelets by macroglobulin, rendering them incapable of participating normally in the coagulation proce...

Therapeutic Plasma Exchange in Pediatric Severe Immune Thrombocytopenia: A Case Report and Literature Review

Treatment of severe Immune Thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) accompanied by life-threatening bleeding events is challenging and a combination of treatment measures should be undertaken to rapidly increase the platelet count. Herein, we report a case of severe ITP in a seven-year-old boy who suffered from massive bleeding which was totally unresponsive to conventional therapeutic interventions. Sin...

Therapeutic plasma exchange in Casablanca.

BACKGROUND Therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) is an extracorporeal blood purification method for the treatment of diseases in which pathological proteins have to be eliminated. In the aim to demonstrate our single center activity, we analyzed our data since 2 years. METHODS Between years 2002 and 2005, 104 TPE procedures were performed on 42 patients. Median age and male/female ratio were 32 (...