Infectious diseases
Application of therapeutic plasma exchange in patients having severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome
Jeong Rae Yoo, Sun Hyung Kim, Young Ree Kim, Keun Hwa Lee, Won Sup Oh, Sang Taek Heo
Korean J Intern Med. 2019;34(4):902-909. Published online November 10, 2017
Background/Aims: Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is a viral hemorrhagic fever with a high fatality rate. However, effective treatments for SFTS cases not responded to supportive therapy have not been established. Herein, we introduced the therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) in SFTS ..
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