These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: Apheresis: clinical response to patients unresponsive to conventional therapy.
    Author: Sakamoto H, Takaoka T, Usami M, Emura M, Okabe K, Matsushita M, Smith JW, Malchesky PS, Nose Y.
    Journal: Trans Am Soc Artif Intern Organs; 1985; 31():704-10. PubMed ID: 3837535.
    Abstract:
    Ten of 13 (76.9%) rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients having intensive cryofiltration treatment showed improvement and 5 of 7 (71.4%) of RA patients treated on maintenance cryofiltration therapy showed improvement. Encouraged by these results, 2 centers were established for controlled trial studies of RA patients. Four of 4 (100%) rheumatoid vasculitis patients treated by cryofiltration and 4 of 7 (57.1%) patients treated with plasma exchange showed clinical improvement. An SLE patient with thrombocytopenia showed a dramatic rise in platelet count during intensive (3 day/wk) plasma exchange treatments despite little prior response to drugs, platelet infusions and splenectomy. Plasmapheresis was effective in improving clinical symptoms and lipid abnormalities in a primary sclerosing cholangitis patient without causing hypoproteinemia during the long-term therapy (4 yrs).
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]