Table 1. Demographic and clinical characteristics of the neurological patients that were treated with therapeutic plasma exchange at the Department of Neurology, University Clinical Center (UCC) Tuzla.
Patient characteristics | |
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Sex (female/male) | 35/42 |
Mean age (years) | 51±15.9 |
Average number of plasmapheresis
sessions per patient |
3 (every other day) |
Neurological disease (n/%)
Guillain–Barré syndrome Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy Multiple sclerosis Myasthenia gravis Paraneoplastic polyneuropathy Neuromyelitis optica (Devic`s disease) Motor neuron disease Polymyositis Multifocal motor neuropathy |
29/37.7 18/23.4 9/11.7 8/10.4 4/5.2 3/3.9 3/3.9 2/2.6 1/1.2 |
Most common
comorbidity Hypertension Diabetes Cancer Heart disease Thrombovascular event |
27 9 3 3 3 |