Twice‐daily therapeutical plasma exchange‐based salvage therapy in severe autoimmune thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura: the French TMA Reference Center experience

Daily therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) and rituximab improved thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) prognosis. In the more severe cases, salvage therapies including twice-daily TPE and/or cyclophosphamide may be proposed and require evaluation. TTP was defined as a thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) with severe (<10%) acquired ADAMTS13 deficiency. Among patients included in the French Reference Center for TMA registry, we considered those with a severe disease (i.e., unresponsive to daily TPE and rituximab) who received twice-daily TPE. Nineteen of 289 (6.6%) patients with TTP were treated by twice-daily TPE between 2008 and 2014. Twice-daily TPE was associated with rituximab in 16 cases. The median duration of twice-daily TPE treatment was 3 d (2-22 d). In 6 patients (31.6%), additional treatments (mainly pulses of cyclophosphamide) were performed because of a persistently refractory disease (4 cases) or an exacerbation (2 cases), despite twice-daily TPE. Only one patient (5.3%) died. The other 18 achieved a durable complete remission 25.5 d (13-68 d) after the first TPE. The median follow-up was 14.4 months (7 d-45 months). Twice-daily TPE may be an efficient strategy in the more severe TTP patients with a short-term life-threatening disease that could overcome their poor prognosis..

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2016

Erschienen:

2016

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:97

Enthalten in:

European journal of haematology - 97(2016), 2, Seite 183-191

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Soucemarianadin, Myriam [VerfasserIn]
Benhamou, Ygal [Sonstige Person]
Delmas, Yahsou [Sonstige Person]
Pichereau, Claire [Sonstige Person]
Maury, Eric [Sonstige Person]
Pène, Frédéric [Sonstige Person]
Halimi, Jean‐Michel [Sonstige Person]
Presne, Claire [Sonstige Person]
Thouret, Jean‐Marc [Sonstige Person]
Veyradier, Agnès [Sonstige Person]
Coppo, Paul [Sonstige Person]

Links:

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onlinelibrary.wiley.com
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

BKL:

44.86

Themen:

ADAMTS
Autoimmune thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
Twice‐daily therapeutic plasma exchange

doi:

10.1111/ejh.12706

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

OLC1980297460