PLASMAPHERESIS

TYPES

There are three types of plasmapheresis which can be distinguished as the following:

• This type of plasmapheresis is just like dialysis. This removes plasma, treats it, and returns it to the same person.
• This type of plasmapheresis exchanges blood products to be donated to the recipient. This removes blood plasma, discards it, and the patient receives replacement donor plasma, albumin, or a combination of albumin and saline (70% to 30% ratio, respectively).
• This removes blood plasma, separates its components, and returns a fraction of the plasma to the same person while retaining some plasma, which will be donated.

SYMPTOMS

Signs and symptoms of plasmapheresis will include:

• Bleeding or hematoma from needle placement
• Hypotension
• Potential exposure to blood products, with risk of transfusion reactions or transfusion-transmitted diseases
• Suppression of the patient’s immune system
• Unconsciousness
• Coma

DIAGNOSIS

Plasmapheresis is used to treat a myriad of autoimmune disorders, this includes:

• Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy
• Guillain-Barre syndrome
• Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome
• Myasthenia gravis

Certain forms of neuropathy and complications of sickle cell anemia can also be treated by plasmapheresis.

TREATMENT

During plasmapheresis donation, you will lay on a bunk. At that point, a needle or catheter will be set into a vein in the core of whichever arm has the most vigorous artery. Now and again, a catheter is put in the crotch or shoulder.

Substitution or returned plasma streams into your body through a second tube that is put in the arm or foot.

As per government guidelines, an individual can give plasma up to two times per week. Donation sessions normally take around an hour and a half.