CellTrend cooperates with the DHZ in Cologne

CellTrend cooperates with Dr. Atheer Al-Nakkash, specialist for transfusion medicine at the “Deutsches Hämapherese Zentrum” in Cologne! The range of services offered there includes a variety of treatments. Among other things, Hemapheresis (removal of blood components outside the body) is used for chronic forms of autoimmune diseases such as Long Covid/PostCovid or ME/CFS. For more…

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Christmas Holidays

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2023!   Please note that our laboratory will be closed from December, 22nd 2022 until January, 1st 2023 due to the Christmas holidays. There will be no receiving of patient samples during this period! The last diagnostics of the patient samples will take place…

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Apheresis against Long-COVID?

According to the congress report of the 14th annual meeting of the German Society of Nephrology, ten patients with severe ME/CFS underwent immunapheresis. In 7 out of 10 patients this leads to a significant improvement in symptoms. Prof. Dr. Scheibenbogen suspects an apheresis effect on the beta cell compartment, because autoantibodies against ß1 and ß2…

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New study about dysregulated autoantibodies in Post COVID Syndrome published

A new study about dysregulated autoantibodies in Post COVID Syndrome (PCS) has been published in Frontiers in Immunologie! Nearly 160 patients were included in the study and divided into four groups. Most PCS patients present a plethora of symptoms without clear evidence of organ dysfunction. The symptom severity of ME/CFS correlates with natural regulatory autoantibody…

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