Evaluation for Therapeutic Plasma Exchange for Immune Mediated Neurological Disease

Evaluation of Therapeutic Plasma Exchange for Immune-Mediated Neurological Diseases in a Sample of Egyptian Patients: An Experience at Al-Azhar University Hospitals

The goal of this observational study is to Evaluation of Therapeutic Plasma Exchange for Immune-Mediated Neurological Diseases in a Sample of Egyptian Patients: An Experience at Al-Azhar University Hospitals, including evaluating clinical response rates and functional improvement.

Therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) is recommended as Class I therapies by the American Society for Apheresis (ASFA) guidelines and are widely used as first-line therapies for the treatment of acute neuroimmune diseases , TPE is generally well tolerated, with minor complications occurring in about 20-30% of patients ,(ASFA) publishes regular guidelines on the indications for TPE. Studies performed over the last three decades showed that myasthenia gravis (MG), Guillain-Barre syndromé (GBS) and chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) were the most frequently cited indications for TPE followed by multiple sclerosis (MS) , The aims of this research to evaluate therapeutic plasma exchange for immune-mediated neurological diseases in a sample of Egyptian patients, including evaluating clinical response rates and functional improvement

Inclusion Criteria:

• 1. All neurological patients irrespective of age who will undergo TPE. 2.All new and relapse cases that meet the ASFA guidelines and where TPE is the first and/or second line of therapy

Exclusion Criteria:

• 1. Individuals with contraindications to therapeutic plasma exchange, such as hemodynamic unstable, hypocalcaemia, allergy to fresh frozen plasma or albumin.

  2.Patients who will undergo fewer than five cycles of TPE and not complete the procedure.

  3.Patients with non-neurological disorders.