|
| |
| | Nursing Spectrum- Career Fitness Online |
 | | Gordon B, Saal S. Low-density lipoprotein apheresis using the liposorber dextran sulfate cellulose system for patients with hypercholesterolemia refractory to medical therapy. | | | The success of LDL apheresis is considered remarkable by healthcare professionals and patients alike. | | | One evening, a patient under O’Neill’s care who had heart disease but was receiving LDL apheresis developed chest pain at home. |
|
http://community.nursingspectrum.com/MagazineArticles/article.cfm?AID=3220
(1997 words)
|
|
| |
| | Lipids Online Slides: ldl, apheresis, endothelial function |
| | A 6-year nonblinded study was conducted in patients with heterozygous FH and CHD, comparing lipid-lowering drug therapy with a combination of drug therapy and apheresis. | | | Sodium nitroprusside increased forearm blood flow equally before and after apheresis, but vasodilation in response to acetylcholine was markedly increased after apheresis. | | | Improvement of peripheral artery endothelial function by single LDL apheresis: responses of forearm blood flow |
|
http://www.lipidsonline.org/slides/slide01.cfm?q=ldl&pg=25
(813 words)
|
|
| |
| | LDL Apheresis |
| | Apheresis is a technique that separates the blood into components so that any unwanted substances may be removed from the blood. | | | Once this has been established, you will meet again with Dr. Chawla to decide if LDL apheresis is a treatment choice for you. | | | In collaboration with your cardiologist or primary care physician, Dr. Chawla, Medical Director of Sun Health, will take an extensive history and review your medications to ensure all options of have been tried to lower your cholesterol. |
|
http://www.esunhealth.medem.com/ypol/user/userMain.asp?siteid=1735118&content=userCustomPage&bcx=My%20Doctor^TAB~Web%20Site^MNU~Bhuvan%20Chawla,%20MD^PST^1735118~LDL%20Apheresis^CAT^9&pageid=376741&rndm=0.6302138900743527
(458 words)
|
|
| |
| | ISA: Liposorber D Decreases LDL-C and Lipoprotein (a) in High Risk Patients |
| | Each patient had undergone previous LDL apheresis techniques. | | | In this process, positively charged atherogenic lipoproteins -- such as LDL, very low-density lipoprotein (LDL), and lipoprotein (a) -- are adsorbed after being attracted to negatively charged dextran sulfate. | | | He concluded that Liposorber D is safe and beneficial in treating homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia, and severe treatment-resistant hypercholesterolaemia. |
|
http://www.docguide.com/dg.nsf/PrintPrint/E2B49DD9C09D2CD685256DB2006204DC
(473 words)
|
|
| |
| | WSOCTV.com - Health - Blood Cholesterol -- LDL Apheresis |
| | As the blood flows through the filter, LDL cholesterol is bound to a column of special material that attracts the lipoprotein. | | | Studies also find patients have reduced levels of chest pain, decreased plaque volume and a 50 percent decrease in the incidence of coronary events. | | | Everything else passes through the filter and is given back to the patient. |
|
http://www.wsoctv.com/health/3356661/detail.html
(779 words)
|
|
| |
| | Untitled Document |
| | Mean acute reductions in total, LDL, and Lp(a) cholesterol levels were 70 percent, 81 percent, and 68 percent, respectively, in homozygotes and 61 percent, 76 percent, and 65 percent, respectively, in heterozygotes. | | | Diet and drug therapy can reduce cholesterol concentrations in most patients with heterozygous FH, but a small proportion of heterozygotes and nearly all homozygotes do not respond to therapy. | | | Six FH patients were enrolled at the Clinical Center; the total cohort enrolled nationwide included 10 homozygotes and 54 heterozygotes. |
|
http://www.cc.nih.gov/ccc/annual_report/rpt992/Z01CL-02062-09.htm
(442 words)
|
|
| |
| | Newswise |
| | "With the addition of LDL apheresis, Cedars-Sinai now can provide complete therapy for every patient with hypercholesterolemia," said P.K. Shah, M.D., Director of Cardiology at Cedars-Sinai. | | | Some of these patients develop heart disease so early that they may have a heart attack or need heart surgery before the age of 10. | | | "With this procedure we can reduce LDL levels very effectively." |
|
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view?id=LDLAPH.CED
(539 words)
|
|
| |
| | May 1997 - LDL Apheresis |
| | This procedure acutely lowers LDL, VLDL, and lipoprotein(a) levels by 60-70%. | | | The Coronary Atheroma Regression Study (CARS), was a 20 patient, randomized, angiographic trial. | | | What can transfusion medicine offer to patients with hypercholesterolemia? |
|
http://www.itxm.org/TMU1997/tmu5-97.htm
(1029 words)
|
|
| |
| | Newswise |
| | According to Dr. Denton, the two- to four-hour therapy usually must be performed one or two times per month for the remainder of a patient's life. | | | In fact, dramatic reductions in LDL can be seen with commensurate improvement in cardiovascular outcomes," said Dr. Dennis Goldfinger, Director of Transfusion Medicine -- the section of the hospital that performs the procedure. | | | LDL apheresis, approved for treatment by the FDA earlier this year, can be considered a potentially life-saving therapy for patients who do not respond to other types of treatment. |
|
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view?id=LDL.CED
(473 words)
|
|
| |
| | News 14 Carolina 24 Hour Local News HEADLINES |
| | The most common is hypotension or lightheadedness, which affects less than 5 percent of LDL apheresis patients. | | | In the future, more patients are likely to qualify for treatment as the criteria for the use of apheresis are relaxed. | | | For some other patients, cholesterol medication may be effective, but the patient is unable to tolerate the medication due to side effects. |
|
http://rdu.news14.com/content/headlines?ArID=52105&SecID=2
(902 words)
|
|
| |
| | Familial Hypercholesterolemia - High Cholesterol |
| | Liposorber® - LDL Apheresis-- cholesterol reduction therapy using LDL apheresis | | | H.E.L.P. ® - LDL Apheresis - cholesterol reduction therapy using LDL apheresis | | | American Heart Association National directory of resources related to heart disease |
|
http://www.medped.org/MEDPED-Links-LDL-Apheresis.html
(55 words)
|
|
| |
| | Sound Medicine for March 22, 2003 |
| | Medical professionals and patients can learn about apheresis therapies, including a brief discussion of LDL apheresis, at the well-organized Hemapheresis ONline Web site. | | | Mark Deeg, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine, biochemistry and molecular biology at the IU School of Medicine provides details. | | | The treatment can remove up to 60% of LDL cholesterol. |
|
http://www.soundmedicine.iu.edu/archive/2003/032203.html
(900 words)
|
|
| |
| | Services - Therapeutic Apheresis |
| | Portable equipment allows FBS nurses to perform therapeutic apheresis procedures at the patient's bedside. | | | Our medical staff will formulate a therapeutic plan including: | | | The plasma is then reunited with the red cells and returned to the patient through a needle in the other arm. |
|
http://www.fbsblood.org/html/services/ldl.html
(310 words)
|
|
| |
| | Apheresis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | While being related to it, it is distinct from dialysis, which does not separate directly but rather uses osmosis. | | | The various apheresis techniques may be used whenever the removed constituent is causing severe symptoms of disease. | | | Generally, apheresis has to be performed fairly often, and is an invasive process. |
|
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apheresis
(330 words)
|
|
| |
| | LDL apheresis - definition of LDL apheresis in Encyclopedia |
| | LDL apheresis (http://www.csmc.edu/2350.html) information on from Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre. | | | It is used in diseases featuring high LDL, such as the rare homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia, when the heterozygous form does not respond to medical treatment, or when the treatment has led to dangerous side-effects (such as rhabdomyolysis). | | | In medicine, LDL apheresis is a form of apheresis, resembling dialysis, to eliminate the cholesterol-containing particle low-density lipoprotein (LDL) from the bloodstream. |
|
http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/LDL_apheresis
(207 words)
|
|
| |
| | IngentaConnect Application of a New Processing Method to Post-LDL-apheresis Data |
| | Our aim was to elaborate a method to optimise treatment intervals for the individual low-density lipoprotein (LDL)-apheresis treated patients. | | | Affiliations: 1: Medical and Surgical Paediatric Sciences Complex Unit, University of Bologna, Italy 2: Clinical Medicine and Applied Biotechnology Department "D. Campanacci", Atherosclerosis centre "G. Descovich", University of Bologna, Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Via Massarenti 9, 40138 Bologna, Italy 3: Clinical Medicine and Applied Biotechnology Department "D. Campanacci", University of Bologna, Italy | | | Our physical interpretation appears to be a practical model to predict the LDL-rebound kinetic of the single patient. |
|
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tandf/gthm/2002/00000004/00000003/art00004
(317 words)
|
|
| |
| | Cedars-Sinai Heart Center - LDL Apheresis |
| | The results of this procedure can dramatically reduce the LDL levels and help the patient avoid heart attack and stroke. | | | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center now has the first LDL apheresis program in California, providing the needed treatment for many patients who have no other alternative. | | | Some patients who have dangerously high cholesterol, however, do not respond to strong drug treatments. |
|
http://www.csmc.edu/2350.html
(402 words)
|
|
| |
| | Patient Information |
| | For very high-risk patients, “there is a therapeutic option to set the goal at an LDL less than 70 mg/dL.” | | | For information of heart patient organization: Mended Hearts Inc. |
|
http://www.liposorber.com/patient
(83 words)
|
|
| |
| | Lipid Education Program |
| | This handout is designed to help you use the lipid lowering drugs effectively. | | | For example, for a patient with coronary heart disease, drug therapy is recommended if the LDL cholesterol remains >130 mg/dl despite diet, to achieve an ideal LDL goal of <100 mg/dl. | | | Following adequate trials of diet and combination drug therapy, LDL- apheresis is indicated if: |
|
http://www.intmed.mcw.edu/gimcme/lipids
(3097 words)
|
|
| |
| | PRMC Radio News Service |
| | The University of Michigan Health System web site does not provide specific medical advice and does not endorse any medical or professional service obtained through information provided on this site or any links to this site. | | | It can lower your risk of cardiovascular events, in some studies, between 50 and 70 percent, as compared to patients who are receiving just traditional therapy, drugs, and diet and who are not on LDL apheresis. | | | The intriguing and interesting aspect of LDL apheresis is that it’s different from traditional plasma apheresis in that there are no sources of infection that the patient might be introduced to. |
|
http://www.med.umich.edu/prmc/radio/2004/hmcholesterol.htm
(417 words)
|
|
| |
| | New machine helps rid body of bad cholesterol |
| | This treatment must be prescribed by a doctor and conducted by a doctor trained in its specific use. | | | A candidate for LDL—apheresis is a person without heart disease whose LDL is still above 300, or a person with heart disease and an LDL above 200, despite maximum diet and drug therapy for at least 6 months. | | | When maximum diet and drug treatment does not lower the LDL-cholesterol then the addition of LDL-apheresis may be necessary. |
|
http://www.harthosp.org/articles/docs/np010215.html
(307 words)
|
|
| |
| | HemaCare Corporation -- Therapeutic Apheresis |
| | The Company has performed more than 50,000 therapeutic apheresis procedures, more than any single organization in the world. | | | Therapeutic Apheresis (TA) applies apheresis technology to the clinical treatment of autoimmune diseases and blood disorders by removing selected, abnormal components or cells and returning all others. | | | TA provides a rapid clinical response, reduces patient complications, minimizes hospital stays and reduces overall costs of medical care for many diseases. |
|
http://www.hemacare.com/apheresis.htm
(236 words)
|
|
| |
| | Case 2005-MDC10-01 LDL apheresis |
| | These patients are given LDL apheresis as treatment. | | | This type of treatment will cost about € 1250 - 1475 (NKR 10.000 - 12.000) per treatment and is repeated every once a week. | | | Some patients with familiar LDL-hyperlipoproteinaemia have got a "double defect" with extremely high cholesterol values. |
|
http://www.nordclass.uu.se/verksam/norddrgforum/HTML/case2005_mdc10_01.htm
(173 words)
|
|
| |
| | LDL Apheresis |
| | Seidel D: H.E.L.P. apheresis therapy in the treatment of severe hypercholesterolemia: 10 years of clinical experience. | | | al.: Improved haemorheology associated with a reduction in plasma fibrinogen and LDL in patients being treated by heparin-induced extracorporeal LDL precipitation (HELP). | | | Park JW, Mechthild M, Braun P: Effect of HELP-LDL-apheresis on outcomes in patients with advanced coronary atherosclerosis and severe hypercholesterolemia. |
|
http://www.bbraunusa.com/index.cfm?uuid=92C72072D0B759A1E3608A31D0DD9434
(475 words)
|
|
| |
| | Blood scrubbing removes cholesterol: 6/13 |
| | The procedure is only used in patients for whom diet and maximum drug therapy have either been ineffective or not tolerated. | | | During this procedure, blood is removed from the patient through a catheter and drained into a device called a liposorber, which absorbs the LDL from the plasma. | | | MUSC is planning to expand its LDL-apheresis service, having begun about two years ago with one patient and now working with a second patient. |
|
http://www.musc.edu/catalyst/archive/2003/co6-13blood.htm
(291 words)
|
|
| |
| | LDL Apheresis |
| | The LDL depleted plasma is then combined with the patient's blood and returned to the patient. | | | The H.E.L.P.™ System provided in the U.S. by B. Braun Medical is a proven procedure, known as LDL Apheresis, which selectively removes LDL cholesterol from the patient's bloodstream while leaving other blood components intact. | | | Once the patient's blood is removed from a vein in the arm, the plasma is separated from the rest of the blood using a membrane plasma filter. |
|
http://www.bbraunusa.com/index.cfm?uuid=7E30D9B5D0B759A1E3EE6AA31A7A0F59
(262 words)
|
|
| |
| | LDL Apheresis Description |
| | This procedure is used if diet or lipid lowering drug therapy has not lowered high LDL-cholesterol levels adequately. | | | LDL apheresis is a procedure that takes blood outside the body to remove the LDL-cholesterol and then returns the plasma and blood back to the body. | | | Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) is the major cholesterol carrying lipoprotein in your blood. |
|
http://medicine.iupui.edu/lipid/what.html
(97 words)
|
|
| |
| | Catalogo Articoli |
| | LDL-cholesterol, fibrinogen and lipoprotein (a) were significantly reduced in the HELP treated patients compared with standard therapy, resulting in a significant improve in plasma viscosity, erythrocyte aggregation and resistance to oxidative stress of LDL particles. | | | Our resultssuggest that the clinical outcome of SHL after a single extracorporeal LDL-apheresis is superior or at least equal to the more expensive standard treatment with prednisolone, dextranes and pentoxifyllin. |
|
http://serials.cib.unibo.it/cgi-ser/start/it/spogli/df-s.tcl?prog_art=2394565&language=ITALIANO&view=articoli
(401 words)
|
|
| |
| | LDL Apheresis News |
| | The Saturday Evening Post did a story on LDL apheresis that included an interview with Dr. Deeg. | | | See the WTHR 13 report on the LDL apheresis program run by Dr. Deeg at Indianapolis. |
|
http://medicine.iupui.edu/lipid/news.html
(68 words)
|
|
|
