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After he was treated with plasmapheresis and rituximab, his condition stabilized for a year before “the underlying genetic disease” began to progress again, Prüss says.

When traditional treatments don’t work, plasmapheresis, which removes or exchanges blood plasma from the body, can also be an option.

Other ways of overcoming autoimmunity, like the removal of antibodies against interferon from the blood, called plasmapheresis, could also help patients.

She was only the 217th person in the world to be diagnosed with the disorder and among the first to receive the concoction of steroids, immunoglobulin infusions and plasmapheresis she credits for her recovery.

In severe cases, intravenous immunoglobulin therapy and plasmapheresis — or plasma exchange — are sometimes considered.