Most patients needed 6 to 12 plasma exchanges, and one patient required 30.

In the era before effective treatment with plasma exchange, the fatality rate was about 90%.

With plasma exchange, survival at six months is around 80%.

In 1991 it was reported that plasma exchange provided better response rates compared to plasma infusion.

Occasionally, plasma exchange is required to remove the antibodies.

One is plasma exchange, a modern form of bloodletting.

Most doctors who know the facts will not use plasma exchange, but there are places in the country that have made it available to parents.

Blood products including intravenous immunoglobulin and a process known as plasma exchange can also be employed.

Treatment options during the symptom period include medicines or a procedure called plasma exchange.

In a plasma exchange, blood is taken out of your body.