Therapeutic plasma exchange for COVID‐19‐associated hyperviscosity

AD Truong, SC Auld, NA Barker, S Friend… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background Recent data suggests an association between blood hyperviscosity and both
propensity for thrombosis and disease severity in patients with COVID‐19. This raises the …

COVID-19-Associated Hyperviscosity: A Potential Link between Inflammation and Thrombophilia

C Maier, AD Truong, S Auld, D Polly… - Available at SSRN …, 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
Although COVID-19 begins as a respiratory pneumonia, we are now discovering it causes
an intense inflammatory response accompanied by systemic microangiopathy. In reflecting …

Understanding the role of therapeutic plasma exchange in COVID‐19: preliminary guidance and practices

GK Patidar, KJ Land, H Vrielink… - Vox …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background and objectives Cytokine release syndrome in COVID‐19 is due to a
pathological inflammatory response of raised cytokines. Removal of these cytokines by …

Blood hyperviscosity in acute and recent COVID-19 infection

A Shaik, Q Chen, P Mar, HS Kim… - Clinical …, 2022 - content.iospress.com
BACKGROUND: Elevated estimated blood viscosity (EBV), derived from hematocrit and
globulins, is associated with thrombotic complications, organ failure, and higher mortality in …

[HTML][HTML] Efficacy of therapeutic plasma exchange in severe COVID‐19 patients

L Zhang, H Zhai, S Ma, J Chen… - British Journal of …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
At the end of December 2019, an outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused
by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) appeared in Wuhan …

Association of blood viscosity with mortality among patients hospitalized with COVID-19

D Choi, O Waksman, A Shaik, P Mar, Q Chen… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - jacc.org
Abstract Background Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) is characterized by a
dysfunctional immune response and abnormal blood rheology that contribute to endothelial …

Efficacy of therapeutic plasma exchange in patients with severe COVID‐19: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

OA Abdelwahab, RA Diab, KS Elsaeidy… - Reviews in Medical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We conducted this systematic review and meta‐analysis to evaluate the existing evidence
and to quantitatively synthesise evidence on the impact of therapeutic plasma exchange …

[HTML][HTML] Therapeutic plasma exchange in adults with severe COVID-19 infection

F Khamis, I Al-Zakwani, S Al Hashmi… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Objective To evaluate the therapeutic use of plasma exchange in COVID-19 patients
compared to controls. Methods A case series of critically ill adult men and non-pregnant …

Changes in the blood viscosity in patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection

HM Al-Kuraishy, AI Al-Gareeb, SM Al-Hamash… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by a novel virus known as severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). SARS-CoV-2-induced …

Therapeutic plasma exchange in adult critically ill patients with life-threatening SARS-CoV-2 disease: a pilot study

F Faqihi, A Alharthy, M Alodat, DJ Kutsogiannis… - Journal of Critical …, 2020 - Elsevier
Purpose We investigated the effect of therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) on life-
threatening COVID-19; presenting as acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) plus multi …