Resultados de intercambio plasmático en síndrome del hombre rígido: experiencia de un caso

Abstract

In recent decades, therapeutic apheresis has become consolidated as a blood purification procedure and has been integrated into nephrology units, as it requires personnel trained in the management of vascular access and requires extensive knowledge of extracorporeal circulation and its complications¹. Plasmapheresis is a therapeutic procedure whose main objective is to eliminate from the blood those components considered pathogenic responsible for a disease and thus contribute to its treatment. The technique consists of passing the patient's blood through an extracorporeal device that separates the plasma from the other components of the blood, removing the separated plasma and replacing it in the proportion 1/1 with 5% albumin or fresh frozen plasma².