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The MS Lesion Project's discovery MS Lesion Project investigators have published findings showing that people with a specific pattern of tissue damage responded to plasma exchange therapy while others did not.

But yesterday she began a ten-day plasma exchange programme which could revolutionise her life.

In this article, we describe the case of a woman who developed life-threatening TTP temporally related to a honeybee sting and who required prolonged plasma exchange before her condition improved.

Anthony, a father of two, underwent revolutionary plasma exchange treatment to rid his system of dangerous antibodies before the transplant.

Our patient was successfully treated with plasma exchange in the acute setting and empirically with corticosteroids, azathioprine, and splenectomy after multiple relapses.

It is not proved that plasma exchange really does this.

Study Shows Increased Proportion of Patients Achieve Disease-Free Status with TYSABRI Separate Study Demonstrates Plasma Exchange May Be an Effective Tool to Accelerate TYSABRI Removal PRAGUE, Czech Republic -- Biogen Idec (NASDAQ: BIIB) and Elan Corporation, plc (NYSE: ELN) announced that TYSABRI([R]) (natalizumab) treatment significantly increases the proportion of disease-free patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) according to a post hoc analysis of the Phase III AFFIRM study to be presented on Saturday, October 13, 2007 at the 23rd Congress of the European Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (ECTRIMS) in Prague, Czech Republic.

It is the first time the plasma exchange operation has been completed in the UK.