How Does Plasmapheresis, or Blood Purification, Affect the Skin of the Face and Body?
Yevgeny Yuryevich Kozlitin, highest-category anesthesiologist
Blood purification is an effective and safe method used as part of the comprehensive treatment of various diseases.
Plasmapheresis is a method of extracorporeal (outside-the-body) therapy. It involves removing plasma containing toxic and metabolic substances that contribute to the development of disease.
To perform the procedure, the patient is connected to the apparatus through one of the peripheral veins using a catheter connected to a system of tubing and a plasma filter. The entire process of separating the plasma and returning the blood cells is performed automatically and safely, as only sterile, disposable materials are used.
The procedure lasts 1.5–2 hours.
Plasmapheresis is performed to reduce the plasma concentration of harmful proteins, lipids, hormones, toxins, antigens, antibodies, and immune complexes.
**Indications:
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- cardiac involvement in allergic and autoimmune diseases
- viral damage to the heart muscle (viral myocarditis)
- complications of myocardial infarction
- inflammation of the heart of autoimmune origin
- atherosclerosis
- systemic vasculitis
- bronchial asthma
- fibrosing alveolitis
- hemosiderosis
- ulcerative colitis
- Crohn’s disease
- chronic autoimmune liver inflammation
- toxic encephalopathies
- diabetes mellitus and its complications (damage to the vessels of the eyes, kidneys, brain, and legs)
- reduced insulin sensitivity; Addison’s disease
- psoriasis and joint involvement in psoriasis
- pemphigus
- herpes
- severe allergic conditions
- toxicoderma
- atopic dermatitis
- rheumatoid arthritis
- systemic lupus erythematosus
- dermatomyositis
- systemic scleroderma
- hay fever
- allergic reactions to various substances
- allergic reactions to physical factors:
sunlight, heat, cold, etc.
- eye involvement in diseases of the endocrine organs
- inflammation of the vascular membrane of the eye; chronic inflammation of the orbit
- damage to the blood vessels of the eyeball in diabetes mellitus
- glomerulonephritis; kidney inflammation in systemic lupus erythematosus
- Goodpasture syndrome
- severe infections of the kidneys and ureters
- severe renal impairment
- multiple sclerosis
- chronic infectious diseases of the nervous system
- allergic inflammation of brain tissue
- ethyl alcohol poisoning; hangover syndrome
- drug addiction and substance abuse
Yevgeny Yuryevich Kozlitin, highest-category anesthesiologist
Blood purification is an effective and safe method used as part of the comprehensive treatment of various diseases.
Plasmapheresis is a method of extracorporeal (outside-the-body) therapy. It involves removing plasma containing toxic and metabolic substances that contribute to the development of disease.
To perform the procedure, the patient is connected to the apparatus through one of the peripheral veins using a catheter connected to a system of tubing and a plasma filter. The entire process of separating the plasma and returning the blood cells is performed automatically and safely, as only sterile, disposable materials are used.
The procedure lasts 1.5–2 hours.
Plasmapheresis is performed to reduce the plasma concentration of harmful proteins, lipids, hormones, toxins, antigens, antibodies, and immune complexes.
**Indications:
**
- cardiac involvement in allergic and autoimmune diseases
- viral damage to the heart muscle (viral myocarditis)
- complications of myocardial infarction
- inflammation of the heart of autoimmune origin
- atherosclerosis
- systemic vasculitis
- bronchial asthma
- fibrosing alveolitis
- hemosiderosis
- ulcerative colitis
- Crohn’s disease
- chronic autoimmune liver inflammation
- toxic encephalopathies
- diabetes mellitus and its complications (damage to the vessels of the eyes, kidneys, brain, and legs)
- reduced insulin sensitivity; Addison’s disease
- psoriasis and joint involvement in psoriasis
- pemphigus
- herpes
- severe allergic conditions
- toxicoderma
- atopic dermatitis
- rheumatoid arthritis
- systemic lupus erythematosus
- dermatomyositis
- systemic scleroderma
- hay fever
- allergic reactions to various substances
- allergic reactions to physical factors:
sunlight, heat, cold, etc.
- eye involvement in diseases of the endocrine organs
- inflammation of the vascular membrane of the eye; chronic inflammation of the orbit
- damage to the blood vessels of the eyeball in diabetes mellitus
- glomerulonephritis; kidney inflammation in systemic lupus erythematosus
- Goodpasture syndrome
- severe infections of the kidneys and ureters
- severe renal impairment
- multiple sclerosis
- chronic infectious diseases of the nervous system
- allergic inflammation of brain tissue
- ethyl alcohol poisoning; hangover syndrome
- drug addiction and substance abuse
