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The therapy costs about £100,000 upfront and then as much as £200,000 a year to treat 50 people. Isn't it a little bit expensive just for a blood letting? Bas
by greatgib 2y ago
The therapy costs about £100,000 upfront and then as much as £200,000 a year to treat 50 people.
Isn't it a little bit expensive just for a blood letting? Basically it should be like a blood donation where you can directly throw the extracted blood. No?
- etskinner 2y agoSeems to me they might have been saying the cost for the drug therapy rather than the bloodletting
- DrAlGreen70 2y agoI didn't see the actual procedure mentioned by name, but they're likely talking about therapeutic plasma exchange. It's a procedure nearly identical to plasma donation except they use a larger volume that requires a replacement fluid. In this instance they'd replace with normal saline with albumin, which is a protein that's important for maintaining intravascular volume among other things. Plasma donation will accomplish the same objective, but it takes about 4-5 donations to remove the same amount of plasma as an exchange would.