A Few Things You Need To Know About Heterochronic Plasma Exchange

By Dennis Barnes


Since the olden days, people have been trying to find ways to live forever. Although we have not yet discovered how to do this, many medical and non-medical solutions have been found to prolong longevity in humans. If you want to do more than exercise and eat healthily to extend your lifespan, then options like going for heterochronic plasma exchange may be just what you need. Before you decide to sign up for this treatment, here is what you should to know about it.

This treatment involves an older person getting a blood transplant from a younger person. Logically, the process is a bit more complicated than a regular blood transplant, but it involves replacing the plasma in the older person with plasma from the younger individual. The process is done extracorporeally, meaning you do not have to worry about the complications associated with surgery.

Before you go in for any medical procedure whether minor or major, it is advisable to confer with your doctor. They will run a thorough exam on you to ensure that you are in good health, and suitable for this treatment options. It has been noted that people with certain conditions benefit considerably from the plasma exchange, while others with other conditions, should avoid it all together. Therefore, a medical checkup is a necessary step.

As with other treatment options, there are also some risks associated with this plasma exchange. This is why you will find that places that offer this procedure will also have a through screening stage, to make sure that your condition will not be exasperated. However, you do not have to worry too much about this because several clinical studies have been conducted, and this procedure is FDA approved.

This procedure in non-intrusive, but it still needs to be done with specialized equipment. Therefore, the facility you choose to check into should have this equipment, as well as qualified medical personnel. You should run thorough background checks to ensure that the clinic is registered, and the physician is certified, licensed and has not been involved in any scandalous cases.

Clinical trials for this form of therapy have just recently been completed, and the process itself if newly approved. Therefore, not very many places offer this service just yet. However, you can run an internet search to identify clinics that are up and running, or book yourself into a place that is opening by early two thousand and seventeen.

Within and outside the medical community, you will find that not everyone is one board with this process. Although it may be perfectly safe, and legally approved not everyone thinks it is ethical. However, considering that this therapy is used to save lives, you should have no moral qualms going through with it.

In some situations, the donor will be provided for you, while in others, you might be allowed to choose someone yourself. Either way, the person will also have to be fully checked to ensure that they are in good health, and therefore, a suitable donor. Unless there is need to compare genetic markers, the donor and recipient will not necessarily need to be a family member.




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