PLASMA EXCHANGE THERAPY OF HEPATIC FAILURE

Successful hemoperfusion and plasma exchange in acute hepatic failure due to snake bile intoxication.

Snake gallbladder is a traditional Chinese medicine that has been used for treating arthritis and detoxification for more than two thousand years. Sporadic cases of toxic hepatic and renal injury from snake gallbladder have been reported. The toxic effects are dose related and there is a high mortality rate after delayed renal failure. We present a 35 year-old man who was a hepatitis B surface ...

Plasma prostaglandins in fulminant hepatic failure.

Plasma exchange for primary autoimmune autonomic failure.

We report on a patient with long-standing severe autonomic failure that affected his sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. Antibodies against the ganglionic acetylcholine receptors were detected in the serum. Removal of the antibodies by means of plasma exchange resulted in a dramatic clinical improvement.

Hepatic coma with renal failure, treated by repeated exchange transfusion.

Hepatic coma following acute hepatic necrosis carries a high mortality in spite of conventional therapy (Katz et al., 1962; McDonald and De la Harpe, 1963; Cook and Sherlock, 1965), but the concomitant development of renal failure makes the prognosis even worse (Hecker and Sherlock, 1956). Owing to the extraordinary capacity of the liver to regenerate, other forms of treatment have recently bee...

Analysis of hepatic failure plasma by high performance gel-chromatography.

Plasma taken from hepatic failure rats induced by D-galactosamine was used to observe the variatiation in its chromatogram obtained by conducting a high performance gel-chromatography (TSK G2000SW used). The progress of hepatic failure caused distinct increase in the 12 abnormal peaks, especially peak b contained middle moelcular weight substances, which showed a good correlation with the condi...