Plasma exchange is beneficial for patients with fulminant Wilson's disease
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Therapeutic plasma exchange can efficiently remove excess copper from the blood of people suffering from Wilson's disease, while reducing their toxic serum copper levels. Characterized by the presence of too much copper in organs and tissues, Wilson's disease is a genetic autosomal recessive disorder whose complications include renal insufficiency and hemolytic anemia. The condition necessitates immediate hepatic transplantation, which is facilitated by the use of fresh-frozen plasma replacement.
Publication Name: World Disease Weekly Plus
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Year: 1998
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Very low infectivity detected in plasma
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Results of a study conducted by Paul Brown and his colleagues at the National Institutes of Health indicated that human plasma protein concentrations support a minimal risk of getting Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. The researchers also studied the distribution of infectivity among various components and plasma fractions associated with normal human blood. Their findings also showed that most of the infectivity in spiked human blood was correlated with cellular blood components.
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