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Therapeutic plasma exchange in neurologic disorders
1Department of Nephrology and Dialysis, Sestre Milosrdnice University Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia.
Abstract:
Neurologic diseases are one of the most common indications for therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE). In autoimmune neurologic diseases like Guillain-Barre syndrome, myasthenia gravis, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, and paraprotein-associated polyneuropathy, TPE has been found to be beneficial. In some others (e.g., multiple sclerosis and Eaton-Lambert syndrome), TPE cannot be considered a generally accepted treatment option.