Guide for our Patients

Everything you need to know when planning to be treated at the Apheresis Center

After contacting the Apheresis Center Team – here is a short description of the process:

1) Free Consultation and Tests

You will receive a free consultation (our co-founder Markus Klotz will share with you his and our medical team’s full knowledge of how he recovered from Long Covid and how hundreds of our clinic’s patients have recovered since) and you will then be able to take free diagnostic tests online that will indicate if further investigation of your symptoms for treatment is appropriate (Microclots Test and MCAS Test). If you decide to attend our clinic, the process continues seamlessly:

2) Health Coach Assistance

You will be contacted by our Health Coach Tanja Walser, who will guide you through your entire recovery journey from A to Z, making sure that every bit of it is optimised and effortless – full support from someone who knows and has been there – a recovered expert patient and Health Coach at your side all the time! 

3) Travel Support

You will be contacted by our Travel Support Cyprus team who will book your fully supported trip, accommodation and have a local support network in place for you from transport, assistance to cooking and nanny services etc – and yes, they know exactly what you need because – yes, you guessed it – they have been in your shoes before, just like Tanja! 

4) Clinical Nutrition Supervision

You will receive full clinical nutritional supervision from day one by our Clinical Nutritionist Chryso Zorbas, even before you arrive at the clinic – because any food you put into your body is essentially information – getting this part and the supplements right is a huge bonus to your treatment outcome, especially as she is also our Clinical Director and directly involved with our medical team! 

5) Treatment at the Clinic

You will receive individualised, symptom-based and data/diagnostic-supported treatment for your condition according to our Combination Therapy ‘The Cyprus Protocol’, which is adjusted weekly using patient surveys and background data analysis, and soon to be enhanced with 24-hour health data tracking. You have access to more treatments in one place than anywhere else in the world, at accessible prices. Some of these are unique to our clinic (H.E.L.P. with Partial Plasma Exchange). 

6) Post Treatment Phase

You will receive post-treatment medication protocols (antiviral/anticoagulant and/or immune-related) and Early Treatment Packages (in case of re-infection to prevent symptoms returning), and while our Health Coach Tanja is always on your side, she will also make sure that you get the perfect post-treatment and don’t fall into the trap of over-exertion which could cause you to lose some of the treatment results if not avoided in time or properly managed if already happened. Treatments, Diagnostics, Assistance&Service details and options see here or chose the website menus ‘Treatments’, ‘Diagnostics’ or ‘Assistance&Services’

You will find extensive information on our blog post about different Types of Apheresis and which type is suitable for which purpose HERE

Here you can read on how our Full Support System works in real life click HERE

ARTE TV Documentary ‘Long Covid – Healing in Cyprus’

ARTE TV Documentary ‘Long Covid – Healing in Cyprus’ about our Apheresis Center

The documentary aired in June 2024. A team of journalists from European TV channel ARTE TV accompanied three of our Long Covid and Post Vac Syndrom patients and interviewed them and our team at the Apheresis Center. Here you can watch an excerpt of the documentary which is also easy to watch for patients with cognitive dysfunction, brainfog and related migraines. English audio by Dubly.

Since the documentary was filmed, new scientific findings have been made, you can find the latest studies published here

Markus has published a blog post here, where he describes the developments and updates since the documentary was filmed.

Click to watch here

Guide to Long Covid,Post Vac and Chronic Illness Terminology

Vaccine Injury

On our website we use the term Post Vac Syndrome or Post Vac in the same way as Vaccine Injury. Illness symptoms can be induced by a virus or a vaccination. The scientific term  is PVS (Post Vaccine Syndrome)

Post Covid

On our website we use the term Long Covid in the same way as Post Covid (technically Post Covid is PASC, Long Covid a prolonged acute Covid infection, but in general the terminology has not been applied that way). The scientific term is PCS (Post Covid Syndrome)

Autoimmune Diseases and other Diseases with chronic fatigue and/or pain

Wherever we mentioned the term Chronic Illness, Chronic Illnesses or Chronic disease it includes Autoimmune Diseases and other Diseases with chronic fatigue and/or pain

ME/CFS

Wherever we mentioned the term Chronic Illness, Chronic Illnesses or Chronic disease it includes ME or ME/CFS or MECFS

Fibromyalgia

Wherever we mentioned the term Chronic Illness, Chronic Illnesses or Chronic disease it includes Fibromyalgia

Multiple Sclerosis

Wherever we mentioned the term Chronic Illness, Chronic Illnesses or Chronic disease it includes Multiple Sclerosis

Lupus

Wherever we mentioned the term Chronic Illness, Chronic Illnesses or Chronic disease it includes Lupus

Rheumatoid Arthritis

Wherever we mentioned the term Chronic Illness, Chronic Illnesses or Chronic disease it includes Rheumatoid Arthritis

Sjögrens Syndrome

Wherever we mentioned the term Chronic Illness, Chronic Illnesses or Chronic disease it includes Sjögrens Syndrome

Lyme disease

Wherever we mentioned the term Chronic Illness, Chronic Illnesses or Chronic disease it includes Lyme disease

CI

CI is used as abbreviation for Chronic Illnesses

LC

LC is used as abbreviation for Long Covid (or at times PCS (Post Covid Syndrome)

Long Covid / Post Covid, PostVac Syndrome – List of Symptoms

There are over 200 known Symptoms in Long Covid / PCS and Post Vac Syndrome / PVS

We are trying to maintain a complete list of symptoms (download here). If you suffer from a symptom that is not on the list please send us an email.