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Therapeutic apheresis instrumentation
Author(s) -
Wehrli Gay
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of clinical apheresis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.697
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1098-1101
pISSN - 0733-2459
DOI - 10.1002/jca.20301
Subject(s) - medicine , apheresis , instrumentation (computer programming) , medical physics , extracorporeal , surgery , immunology , computer science , platelet , operating system
This article provides a concise overview of therapeutic apheresis medicine instrumentation. Three instrument modalities are discussed: (1) centrifugation‐based instruments, (2) extracorporeal photopheresis instruments (a subset of centrifugation‐based instruments), and (3) column‐based instruments. © 2011 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.