Who Needs Plasma?
Plasma protein therapies help people of all ages fight chronic, often genetic diseases such as hemophilia, primary immunodeficiency, alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, and serious, rare, neurological and autoimmune disorders. Plasma proteins are effective in treating these various disorders, and are separated from the plasma using a series of well-established purification methods, such as precipitation, centrifugation, separation and filtration. All plasma protein therapies are subject to viral removal and/or inactivation steps in the process to make life-saving therapies. These steps are effective in eliminating blood-borne infectious agents. This highly-complex production process requires substantial investment in equipment, training and quality control. It takes approximately seven to nine months from the initial plasma donation to the completion of the finished therapy.
Plasma is manufactured into life-saving therapies, that treat patients who have one of the following conditions:
- Bleeding disorders
- Immune system deficiencies
- Genetic lung disorders
- Burns
- Shock
- Trauma
- Major surgery
- Rh incompatibility
- Cardiopulmonary needs
- Recipients of transplants
- Pediatric HIV
- Hepatitis
- Serious liver conditions
- Animal bites (in the prevention of rabies)
Learn more about the diseases and disorders treated with plasma protein therapies.