Small Volume Plasma Exchange (SVPE) for Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) Patients

PHASE2CompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

20

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

January 1, 2016

Primary Completion Date

December 31, 2016

Study Completion Date

December 31, 2016

Conditions
Guillain-Barré Syndrome
Interventions
PROCEDURE

Small Volume Plasma Exchange

Six sessions will be done daily for consecutive 8 days (total 48 sessions). 7 ml/body weight blood will be drawn at each session and will be separated into plasma and blood cells. Blood cells will be infused back to the patients and plasma will replaced by equal volume of fresh frozen plasma and colloid solution. At the end of each day 1200 ml plasma (total 9600 ml in 48 sessions) will be removed.

Trial Locations (1)

1000

National Institute of Neuroscience, Dhaka

Sponsors

Collaborators (1)

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

GBS-CIDP Foundation International

UNKNOWN

collaborator

National Institute of Neurosciences and Hospital, Dhaka

OTHER_GOV

collaborator

Erasmus Medical Center

OTHER

lead

International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh

OTHER