Table 4: Immunoadsorption (Therasorb, Miltenyi, Germany) in hypercholesterolemia (selection of literature).

Year Authors Patients Duration of therapy (years) Reduction of LDL (%) 1988 Borberg et al. [13] 5 3–5 52–67 1988 Oette and Borberg [14] 10 5–8 71 1990 Richter et al. [15] 8 1–3 56 1993 Bambauer et al. [16] 4 1-2 55–58 1996 Richter et al. [17] 18 8.6 60–70