I am currently (5/6/2022) at the American Society for Apheresis (ASFA) annual meeting in Philadelphia presenting a poster titled "The Effects of Pulsed Therapeutic Plasma Exchange on Gastrointestinal Symptoms in [...]
On Saturday, May 15th, I did a presentation and follow-up Q&A session to a joint meeting of several Scleroderma Foundation chapters on a very important, but complex topic – ANA [...]
Several years ago, Amazon set up a program to help registered (501c3) non-profit organizations. The program is called Amazon Smile. After you select a non-profit organization, for every dollar you [...]
We are pleased to announce that our CEO/Founder, Ed Harris, was invited by the Southern California chapter of the Scleroderma Foundation to give a talk on the use of therapeutic plasma [...]
We are frequently asked by patients interested in talking to their doctor about trying therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) how to approach this topic. This can be very challenging, especially since [...]
Diagnosis of systemic scleroderma can often be very challenging. Diagnosis is done by a combination of lab tests (ANA/antibodies) and clinical symptoms such as skin thickening, puffy hands, telangiectasias. Additional symptoms [...]
This past March, after we announced that the research paper “Therapeutic Plasma Exchange for the Treatment of Systemic Sclerosis: A Comprehensive Review and Analysis” had been published in the Journal [...]
It is very common to read in articles about systemic scleroderma that there are about 300,000 people in the US with this disease. This number is completely wrong, according to numerous research studies. [...]
Background – 25 Years Ago The names used for referring to the scleroderma family of disease are very confusing for a number of reasons. Historically, there were two known forms of [...]
This article was prompted by a post in one of the scleroderma focused Facebook support groups that I am active in. The poster indicated that she had read an article [...]
