Uses of Plasma

Rare diseases affect a relatively small portion of the population, but for those that suffer from these conditions, their lives depend upon plasma protein therapies. These include: People with bleeding and blood clotting disorders such as: Hemophilia Von Willebrand Disease Antithrombin III Deficiency It can take as many as 1200 plasma donations to manufacture enough therapy required to treat one patient with hemophilia for a year.

People with immunodeficiencies and autoimmune diseases such as:

• Primary Immunodeficiency Disease (PID)
• Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP)
• Kawasaki Disease

It can take as many as 130 plasma donations to manufacture enough therapy to treat one patient with PID for a year.

People with Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency (Genetic Emphysema)

It can take as many as 900 plasma donations to manufacture enough therapy to treat one Alpha-1 patient for a year.

Plasma protein therapies are also used in every day medicine, emergencies and surgical medicine to treat:

• Burns
• Shock
• Trauma
• Major Surgery
• Rh incompatibility
• Cardiopulmonary issues
• Organ transplants
• Pediatric HIV
• Hepatitis
• Liver conditions