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Establishing a Therapeutic Pheresis Program
Author(s) -
Cona Jeanne A.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
artificial organs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.684
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1525-1594
pISSN - 0160-564X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1525-1594.1981.tb03994.x
Subject(s) - medicine
Pheresis techniques have been used to collect large quantities of specific blood components from single donors for many years. These techniques have been modified to methods for therapy in certain disease processes. The adaption of pheresis to a type of therapy requires that many factors be taken into consideration and the following describes these factors.