Plasmapheresis in Ophthalmology

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Plasmapheresis in Raynaud's disease.

Understanding of the pathogenesis, clinical course, and treatment of Raynaud's disease is confused and unsatisfactory, and no success in treatment can be promised. Five patients with severe Raynaud's disease, who had not responded to other forms of treatment, were treated by plasmapheresis, which produced a striking improvement. Ultrasonic velocimetry showed that segments of digital arteries wh...

Therapeutic Plasmapheresis in Treatment

.AMONG the many complications suffered by patients with Waldenstriim’s macroglobulinemia are those related to increased blood viscosity.16 These include vascular stasis, retinopathy, and a bleeding disorder due to acquired functional thrombopathy.4 T h e latter is considered due to coating of platelets by macroglobulin, rendering them incapable of participating normally in the coagulation proce...

Ophthalmology

This recent addition to the Clio Medica series is very welcome for several reasons. It is almost unique, for the only other histories of ophthalmology in English are a very short essay by Sorsby and an article by Shastid in the American Encyclopedia of Ophthalmology. The brevity of Chance's history has excluded a separate bibliography, yet the author has managed to include mention in the text o...

Ophthalmology.