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Therapeutic Plasma Exchange; One Year Single Center Experience.

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Dialysis and CRRT.

Abstract

Background: Therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) or plasmapheresis is a procedure which removes circulating antibodies, immune complexes and toxins from the blood. TPE has been successfully used in various pediatric immunological and non-immunological diseases.
Aim of the study: This work aims to study the outcome of therapeutic plasma exchange in our University Hospitals. 
Methods: This is a descriptive study, carried out in a one year including patients who were treated using (TPE); clinical data, number of sessions, volume of plasma exchanged, outcomes and complications were recorded and statistically analyzed.
Results: Thirty six patients were included in this study; 13 patients had Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS), 9 patients had hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), 9 patients had nephrotic syndrome, 3 patients had Amyloidosis, and 2 patients had Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Throughout this year we delivered 301 session of TPE , As regard complications; the most common complication was hypofibrinogenemia, Twenty seven patients experienced improvement and 6 patients showed no improvement while 3 patients died during the course of disease treatment.
Conclusion: Therapeutic plasma exchange is a safe and effective adjuvant therapy for many diseases especially autoimmune diseases.

DOI

10.21608/geget.2021.51825.1018

Keywords

Plasmapheresis, Outcome, Autoimmune disease, HUS, GBS

Authors

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Doaa

Last Name

Youssef

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Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Nephrology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt.

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dody5176@yahoo.com

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0000-0001-9948-5690

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Sabry

Last Name

Elshobary

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Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Nephrology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt.

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sabryelshobary@gmail.com

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First Name

Nada

Last Name

Abdallah

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Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Nephrology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt.

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dr.nada77@yahoo.co

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15

Article Issue

2

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20384

Issue Date

2020-12-01

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2020-12-01

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2020-12-01

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60

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68

Print ISSN

1687-613X

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2636-3666

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Case Report

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680

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GEGET

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https://geget.journals.ekb.eg/

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22 Jan 2023