First patient: hepatic and renal failure, encephalopathy, ventilator dependency and DIC 2nd patient: hepatic and renal failure, hypoglycemia and DIC 3rd patient: renal failure and coagulopathy
Time of plasmapheresis initiation after pregnancy termination
6 hours later
1–5 days later
0–3 days later
2 days later
First patient: 8 days 2nd patient: 6 days 3rd patient: the same day
Number of plasmapheresis sessions
1–3
1–4
2–8
2–4
First patient: 22 2nd patient: 4 3rd patient: 3
Results
Obvious reduction in liver function recovery time, hospital stay and ICU admission duration with plasmapheresis No difference in mortality
37 treatment 2 deaths
10 treatments 1 death Mean ICU Dmission day: 10 days Mean hospital stay duration: 17 days
