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Show tt The Salt Lake Tribune, Saturday, June Blood Cooling Procedure Helps Arthritis Patients - er in Chicago and the Cedars-Sina- i Medical Center in Los Angeles Sig nificant improvement was reported in 14 of those patients Every 4 or 6 Weeks He said one patient, a woman, has been gettuig the treatment every four to six weeks for two years Kiakauer said she has had verv severe rheumatoid arthritis for 32 years In fact, it was just about the worst 1 had ever seen in my years as a rheumatologist," Krakauer said at a Her response was news conference truly dramatic He said the teclinique takes advan tage of the fact that the immune complexes ui the blood will precipitate out of the plasma when it is cooled A machine called the cryomax cools the plasma to 39 degrees Fahrenheit It is then passed through a filter that removes the immune complexes Warmed, Returned The cleansed plasma is then warmed and returned to the patient Krakauer said the procedure takes anywhere from two to five hours and m the study was performed twice a week for five weeks "Our observations lead us to behove that a substantial number of patients shall le able to improve clinically on chronic cryopheresis therapy," he said A new blood cooling process outside the body removes apparently harmful blood substances and has helped small numbers of patients with WASHINGTON (UPI) severe rheumatoid arthritis, a doctor reported Friday The technique has been tried ui only five medical centers around the world Cleveland, Los Angeles Chicago Muiuch and Tokyo The initial report uidicates it is safe and may be useful for many patients who have failed conventional treatment for the most serious of .ill foi ms of arthritis No General I se However, Dr Randall Krakauer of the Cleveland Clinic said in a nqxrrt to the Pan American Congress of Rheumatology that the longteim are still unknown He said the treatment is not yet ready for genet al use, nor has it been appioved by the Food and Drug Administration the process is called cryopheiese- it is a refinement of a process by wlui h all a patients plasma is removed and replaced by a donors plasma to get i ul of immune system complexes believed to have a role in the disease Krakauer reported on a study of Hi patients at the Cleveland Clinic, Rush Lukes Medical Cent Prcsby tenan-S- t - Did Hinckley Mean to Injure? 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