Therapeutic apheresis: A promising method to remove microplastics?
Microplastics and nanoplastics have emerged as a major and growing health concern, with recent data revealing alarming levels of human exposure and contamination. Thus, there is a clear and urgent need for an effective method to remove microplastics and nanoplastics from the human body. Here, we provide the first evidence that extracorporeal apheresis, a therapeutic technique established around the world, may have the potential to achieve this goal.
Authors
- Charlotte Steenblock (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9635-4860)
- Stefan R. Bornstein (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5211-2536)
- Julio Licínio (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6905-5884)
- Karin Voit-Bak
- Richard Straube (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-6257-6775)
- Mohamad Nurman Yaman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8299-8967)
- Waldemar Kanczkowski (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5595-8393)
- Timo Gruber
- Danai Katsere
- Ayoub El Attaoui
- Leopold Wohlsperger
- Gunther Piwernetz
Institutions
- King's College London (GB)
- University of Zurich (CH)
- SUNY Upstate Medical University (US)
- University Hospital of Zurich (CH)
- University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus (DE)
- Technische Universität Dresden (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Brain medicine :
- Published
- 2025-05-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.61373/bm025l.0056
- Citations
- 5
- Primary Topic
- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.52