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Californians Recognized For Role In Helping Rare Disease Patients Who Need Lifesaving Therapies

September 1, 2011 By Bio-Medicine.Org

ANNAPOLIS, Md., Sept. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — This month,
Californians are recognizing “Plasma Protein Therapies Month,” by
raising awareness for the valuable contributions of plasma donors
throughout the “Golden State” and for the rare, genetic diseases
treated with the therapies that are made possible through plasma
donation.

Plasma protein therapies, which include plasma-derived therapies
and recombinant blood clotting factors (a biotechnology product),
are used every day to treat people with bleeding disorders, such as
hemophilia, that causes painful internal bleeding and debilitating
joint damage; primary immunodeficiency diseases, which prevent a
person from fighting off even common infections; and alpha-1
antitrypsin deficiency, also known as genetic chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease (COPD), a disease that severely damages the liver
and lungs. In addition, a plasma protein therapy, albumin, is used
in critical care settings, when treating severe trauma, burns and
during major surgery.

“There is no doubt the therapy has prolonged my life,” said
Karen Erickson from Thousand Oaks, Calif. Karen, a former
triathlete, has been diagnosed with alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency.
Karen was told 10 years ago by her pulmonologist “we think we can
get you a few years.” The physician had heard of the rare disease,
but had never seen a case first-hand. Karen self-infuses a plasma
protein therapy weekly from home and uses inhalants and oxygen to
manage her health daily to allow her to continue working and
exercising despite a diminished lung capacity of 20 percent. While
the damage to her lungs caused by the deficiency is irreversible,
it is stemmed by regular infusions of her therapy. The therapy
provides her body with the protein it needs and that her liver does
not naturally produce. She is waiting for a lung transplant.

Plasma, a biological material that cannot be manufactured, is
used to create lifesaving therapies that come solely from c

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