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Plasmapheresis

Known as: Therapeutic plasmapheresis, Plasmaphereses, Therapeutic Plasma Exchange 
The process of separating certain cells from the plasma in the blood by a machine; only the cells are returned to the person. Plasmapheresis can be… 
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Apheresis (procedure)Therapeutic procedureblood treatment
Cell Separationnursing therapystandards characteristics

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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Adjunctive plasma exchange is superior to methylprednisolone in acute renal failure due to ANCA-associated glomerulonephritis.
Review
1995
Review
1995
Recovery by Splenectomy in Patients with Relapsed Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura and Treatment Failure to Plasma Exchange
Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura is a serious, potentially fatal disease, and conventional plasma exchange appears to be the… 
1985
1985
The splenic extraction ratio of antibody-coated erythrocytes and its response to plasma exchange and pulse methylprednisolone.
Splenic blood flow was measured in a series of normal subjects and patients with connective tissue diseases by measuring the rate… 
1984
1984
Recurrence of circulating anti-glomerular basement membrane antibody three years after immunosuppressive treatment and plasma exchange.
A patient with auto-antibody mediated Goodpasture's syndrome was successfully treated with cytotoxic drugs, steroids and plasma… 
1984
1984
Plasmapheresis as an alternative or adjunctive therapy in problem cases of pemphigus.
7 patients with pemphigus unresponsive to and/or with side effects from conventional therapy were treated by plasma exchange… 
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Plasma exchange therapy in patients failing to resuscitate from burn shock.
Irreversible burn shock results from failure of fluid resuscitation and is almost invariably fatal. Because of the implied role… 
1981
1981
Fulminating anti-A autoimmune hemolysis with anuria in a renal transplant recipient: a therapeutic role of plasma exchange.
In this communication we present a case of fulminating anti-A autoimmune hemolysis with anuria occurring during the postoperative… 
1981
1981
Fulminant lupus pneumonitis with acute renal failure and RBC aplasia. Successful management with plasmapheresis and immunosuppression.
Acute interstitial pneumonitis is a well-recognized, although rare, complication of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) that has… 
Highly Cited
1979
Highly Cited
1979
Treatment by plasma exchange of a patient with autoantibodies to the insulin receptor.
WE recently described two groups of patients with severe insulin-resistant diabetes and acanthosis nigricans.1 In these patients… 
Highly Cited
1972
Highly Cited
1972
Plasmapheresis with plasma exchange in hepatic coma. II. Fulminant viral hepatitis as a systemic disease.
Nine patients with acute fulminant hepatic necrosis with stage 4 coma have been subjected to plasmapheresis with plasma exchange…