[The effectiveness of plasmapheresis in treating long-term nonhealing gastroduodenal ulcers]

Plasmapheresis followed by reinfusion of unfrozen autologous plasma favours the healing of previously non-healing gastroduodenal ulcers refractory to the treatment with histamine H2-blockers. Comparative analysis of the use of plasmapheresis in patients with torpid and common relapses has shown that ulcer healing supervenes within the same time that is significantly shorter as compared to the time of gastroduodenal ulcer healing in the patients' group receiving medicamentous treatment alone.