In effect, it restores a proper balance between the various components of the patient's circulation. In specific patients the techniques may prove to be lifesaving. For other patients, therapeutic apheresis, like mechanical ventilation, may help the patient survive long enough for other interventions to produce a cure. Some applications, such as the treatment of organ rejection, are already practical. Other promising applications in the treatment of MOF are in a precocious infancy.
Life tends to be cyclic.
Perhaps this is the rebirth of the humoral theory in medical practice. Genesis of multiple system organ failure. Pabst Science Publishers, Lengerich, pp 32-40 2. The Biography of Medicine. Vintage Books, New York, pp 3-60 6.