PMID: 6536670Jan 1, 1984Paper

Drug-resistant bronchial asthma successfully treated with plasma exchange

Journal of Clinical Apheresis
R BambauerF Trendelenburg

Abstract

Two patients suffering from allergic bronchial asthma who showed no improvement despite six and four weeks, respectively, of drug therapy were successfully treated with therapeutic plasma exchange. The first patient had no attacks over a period of five months, and the other patient had none for over one year. Although this report only deals with single observations, we believe that therapeutic plasma exchange is of particular value for patients with severe allergic bronchial asthma because it eliminates in addition to immunocomplexes other substances, including antigens, rapidly from the blood. This means that it is possible to directly intervene in the pathomechanism. However, further investigations are necessary in order to corroborate this successful therapy.

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