New Educational Video: Therapeutic Plasma Exchange as a Treatment for Systemic Sclerosis
We are pleased to announce that the Scleroderma Education Project has just started a new YouTube educational channel. Our first video is an overview of the research literature on therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) as a treatment for systemic sclerosis. While this video is targeted primarily at clinicians, it is very easy to follow without a medical background. In addition to an overview of the published research on the use of TPE as a treatment for systemic [...]
News Story: “Therapeutic Plasma Exchange Appears to Treat SSc, But Clinical Trial Needed“
Scleroderma News just ran a feature story on our newly published research paper titled “Therapeutic Plasma Exchange for the Treatment of Systemic Sclerosis: A Comprehensive Review and Analysis”. The paper was just published in March 2018 in the Journal of Scleroderma and Related Disorders. Here is a link to the Scleroderma News story: https://sclerodermanews.com/2018/04/12/therapeutic-plasma-exchange-appears-to-treat-systemic-sclerosis-but-trial-needed/?utm_content=buffer16d4d&utm_medium=organic+social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer. The story is a good summary of some of the highlights of the paper, but I would recommend you download and read [...]
New Scleroderma Education Project Website Now Live!
After nearly nine months of effort involving an amazing team of volunteers, the brand-new Scleroderma Education Project website is now live! When the first version of the Scleroderma FAQ™ was published online in 1996, there was almost no information available online about systemic scleroderma on the then very new Internet. Now, the Scleroderma Education Project is a major source of research-based educational information about systemic scleroderma for patients, family members, and clinicians. Over the past [...]
Therapeutic Plasma Exchange Review Paper Just Published!
We are pleased to announce that a new research paper titled Therapeutic plasma exchange in the treatment of systemic sclerosis: A comprehensive review and analysis has just been published online by the Journal of Scleroderma and Related Disorders. The CEO of the Scleroderma Education Project (Ed Harris) is the lead author. The four co-authors are researchers with expertise in diverse fields including rheumatology, immunology, apheresis, and blood rheology. Here is the abstract: Background Therapeutic plasma [...]