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Two sessions of plasmapheresis successfully reduced serum triglyceride levels from 6800 mg/dl to 761 mg/dl, leading to clinical improvement in a patient with severe hypertriglyceridemia-induced acute pancreatitis.
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The use of commercially available mPCR can reduce culture-negative peritonitis rates to <10% in peritoneal dialysis units.
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Raju et al. (2019) conducted a case report in Severe hypertriglyceridemia-induced acute pancreatitis (n=1). Plasmapheresis was evaluated on Serum triglyceride levels. Two sessions of plasmapheresis successfully reduced serum triglyceride levels from 6800 mg/dl to 761 mg/dl, leading to clinical improvement in a patient with severe hypertriglyceridemia-induced acute pancreatitis.
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