Abstract:
:Management of aTTP in patients who refuse or are intolerant to plasma remains challenging, but new drugs can be implemented with success. A 39-year-old woman presented to the Emergency department for bruises at the upper and lower limbs together with worsening anemia and thrombocytopenia; PLASMIC score was seven, indicative of high risk to have a thrombotic microangiopathy due to severe ADAMTS-13 deficiency: indeed, it was 1.4%. We immediately started Plasma Exchange, but after the third procedure she developed severe anaphylaxis to Octaplas plasma, so PEXs were discontinued. We proceeded to a salvage strategy with rituximab and caplacizumab that was rapidly effective to resolve symptoms and hemolysis. It has been already reported a case in which a patient developed severe reactions to fresh-frozen plasma that required discontinuation of PEX. Differently from this case, our patient was already using the less immunogenic pooled plasma units Octaplas, therefore a strategy with caplacizumab was the only available option. Moreover, rituximab is associated with a shorter time to obtain a durable remission in aTTP and a faster time (15 days) to final ADAMTS13 activity recovery >10%. To our knowledge, this is the first case of early discontinuation of caplacizumab in a patient allergic to PEX by actively monitoring ADAMTS13 activity, allowing optimization of healthcare resources during COVID-19 pandemic.
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J Clin Apherjournal_title
Journal of clinical apheresisauthors
Perrone S,Passucci M,Ortu La Barbera E,Capriata M,Ferretti A,Mecozzi A,Giovangrossi P,Equitani F,Cimino Gdoi
10.1002/jca.21877subject
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0733-2459issn
1098-1101pub_type
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journal_title:Journal of clinical apheresis
pub_type: 杂志文章
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journal_title:Journal of clinical apheresis
pub_type: 杂志文章
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journal_title:Journal of clinical apheresis
pub_type: 杂志文章
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journal_title:Journal of clinical apheresis
pub_type: 杂志文章
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journal_title:Journal of clinical apheresis
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journal_title:Journal of clinical apheresis
pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验
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更新日期:2018-02-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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journal_title:Journal of clinical apheresis
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:1992-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of clinical apheresis
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2020-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of clinical apheresis
pub_type: 历史文章,杂志文章,评审
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更新日期:2006-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of clinical apheresis
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2002-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of clinical apheresis
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期:1996-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of clinical apheresis
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2007-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of clinical apheresis
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/jca.2920070410
更新日期:1992-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of clinical apheresis
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2015-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of clinical apheresis
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期:2006-12-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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journal_title:Journal of clinical apheresis
pub_type: 杂志文章
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journal_title:Journal of clinical apheresis
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/(sici)1098-1101(1997)12:4<183::aid-jca5>3.
更新日期:1997-01-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2020-08-17 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of clinical apheresis
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2001-01-01 00:00:00