| Theme | Management of Systemic Diseases with Blood Purification : Aute and Chronic Stage of Diseases | |
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| Title | Plasma-cytapheresis against rheumatoid arthritis | |
| Publish Date | 2001/03 | |
| Author | Reiji Kasukawa | Institute of Rheumatic Diseases Ohta General Hospital Foundation |
| [ Summary ] | Patients with intractable rheumatoid arthritis were treated using plasmapheresis at Fukushima Medical College or by granulomonocytapheresis in multi center clinical trials. With plasmapheresis, using the single or double filtration method, 10 out of 14 patients improved after 1 to 10 applications of pheresis. With granulo-monocytapheresis, using extracorporeal circulation with G-1 column containing cellulose acetate beads, the improvent percentages for 85 patients who received 4 treatments and 79 patients who were treated 8 times were 50.6% and 48.4%, respectively, evaluated 2 weeks after treatment. |
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