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Current status of therapeutic plasma exchange in Korea
- Authors
- Song, EY; Kwon, SW; Kim, DS; Kim, DW; Kim, DW; Kim, HO; Park, CW; Suh, JS; Ryang, DW; Lee, JN; Lee, JW; Lim, YA; Lim, CS; Jeon, DS; Han, CW; Han, TH; Han, KS
- Issue Date
- Apr-2004
- Publisher
- WILEY
- Keywords
- Korea; plasma exchange; registry; therapeutic apheresis
- Citation
- THERAPEUTIC APHERESIS AND DIALYSIS, v.8, no.2, pp 97 - 101
- Pages
- 5
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- THERAPEUTIC APHERESIS AND DIALYSIS
- Volume
- 8
- Number
- 2
- Start Page
- 97
- End Page
- 101
- ISSN
- 1744-9979
1744-9987
- Abstract
- A nationwide survey on the status of plasma exchange in Korea was performed during the 2 year period 2001-02. Data from 496 patients were collected from 15 major hospitals. ne most common indication was myasthenia gravis (15.3%), followed by thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (14.5%) and hemolytic uremic syndrome (9.7%). Clinical improvement was noted in 70.1% of the 415 cases. Plasma exchange by centrifugation alone accounted for 92.4%. Postcentrifugal filtration was carried out in 5.6% and double filtration in 2.0% of treatments. The most common instruments for the centrifugation were Cobe Spectra (71.3%) and Fenwal CS3000 (15.8%). Filtration was performed by either Kuraray KM8300 or Kuraray KM8800. The overall frequency of complications was 11.1% (293/2647 cases), of which symptomatic hypocalcemia was the most common (2.3%).
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Related Researcher
- Lim, Chae Seung
- Guro Hospital (Department of Laboratory Medicine, Guro Hospital)