HUSに対する血漿交換療法の適応

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In recent years, food poisoning and hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) caused by pathogenic Escherichia coli have presented a major problem. We conducted a retrospective study on the efficacy of plasma exchange for 49 patients with HUS who were admitted to the emergency departments or intensive care units of hospitals in the Osaka area. No improvement of the remission rate or prognosis could be confirmed for the patients treated with plasma exchange, so the present study did not demonstrate any usefulness of this study. For individual patients, improvement of symptoms was observed after plasma exchange, but it was not clear how the procedure contributed to this improvement. However, judging from these results and other published literature, plasma exchange is considered to be worth trying for patients with severe HUS.
日本アフェレシス学会の論文
1999-02-28