Patients who have heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HeFH), a condition that causes abnormally raised low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels and premature cardiovascular disease, ...

Drs Brinton and Michos highlight LDL-C apheresis in the treatment landscape for homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia [HoFH]. Eliot Brinton, MD: What do we do if the standard treatments don’t work?

BANGOR — You may not have heard the term apheresis before, but this blood filtering treatment is transforming lives for those who need it. The therapeutic apheresis program at Northern Light Eastern ...

Jeffrey Frist was getting desperate. Diagnosed with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) in 2012 after his first heart attack the year before, he had experienced a cardiovascular event every 11 months ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . LAS VEGAS — Lipid apheresis can significantly reduce lipoprotein(a) levels compared with available drug ...

Desperate to have their lives back, long COVID patients are turning to an expensive “last resort” therapy to cure the mysterious illness. Apheresis, or “blood washing,” is a process in which a ...

Previous studies have suggested that leukocyte apheresis, which selectively removes about 65% of activated granulocytes and 55% of activated monocytes from peripheral blood, can improve IBD symptoms ...

Canakinumab Versus Placebo in Combination With First-Line Pembrolizumab Plus Chemotherapy for Advanced Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer: Results From the CANOPY-1 Trial The study included CAR T-cell ...