ME/CFS Science @mecfsscience.org · 18/06/20262) These are the results of the IAMPOCO trial conducted at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. This was a crossover trial, meaning all 40 participants received both the immunoadsorption and the sham intervention consecutively. 190
ME/CFS Science @mecfsscience.org · 18/06/20263) The immunoadsorption consisted of 5 sessions over a period of 7 days. The sham intervention was exactly the same except that the tryptophan adsorber, which filters antibodies from the blood, was missing from the machine. 180
ME/CFS Science @mecfsscience.org · 18/06/20264) As the graph below shows, there was a marked decline in antibodies with the immunoadsorption treatment but not the sham intervention. So that part of the intervention worked as expected. Unfortunately, while antibody levels dropped, there was no similar change in symptoms. 190
