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Demystify! Application of immune purification in rheumatism

Hormone shock therapy, C-ball shock therapy, and blood purification therapy are the troikas for the treatment of severe and rapidly progressing rheumatism.
This article will introduce you to the application of blood purification therapy in rheumatism
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Blood purification refers to taking the patient's blood out of the body, and using a purification device to remove certain pathogenic substances from the body, purify the blood, and achieve the purpose of curing diseases
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What are the commonly used blood purification techniques in the immunology department?

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The commonly used immune purification treatments in the immunology department mainly include: plasma exchange, double-filtered plasma exchange and immunoadsorption therapy
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Plasma exchange is to take the patient's blood out of the body, separate it into plasma and cell components through a plasma separator, discard the disease-causing plasma, and then replace the discarded plasma and the patient's blood cell components with normal human fresh plasma and other plasma substitutes.
The process of removing disease-causing substances from the blood in the patient's body
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The methods of plasma separation include membrane plasma separation and centrifugal plasma separation.
The Department of Rheumatology and Immunology of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University now routinely uses centrifugal plasma separation and exchange.
Its advantage is that it requires low blood flow speed and can be completed by indwelling needles without the need for a center.
Intravenous catheterization, less trauma and low cost
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Double-filtered plasma exchange The separated pathogenic plasma is filtered and separated again, and the plasma and the formed components of the blood after the pathogenic factors are discarded are infused back into the body, so as to achieve the purpose of treating diseases
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Immunoadsorption utilizes the special adsorption performance of the adsorption column.

What rheumatism can blood purification technology treat? What are the adverse reactions?

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Blood purification technology can treat severe systemic lupus erythematosus, severe scleroderma, thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome, refractory rheumatoid arthritis, severe dermatomyositis, ANCA-related vasculitis and other rheumatism Disease is an important weapon in the clinical treatment of severe rheumatism

The adverse reactions of blood purification technology include allergic reactions (fever, rash, hypotension, chills, etc.