apheresis


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Synonyms for apheresis

(linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in 'coon' for 'raccoon' or 'till' for 'until'

a procedure in which blood is drawn and separated into its components by dialysis

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A schedule change was implemented in the study institution's apheresis service in August 2013 to increase hours of operation covered by FT nurses and minimize the use of CNS.
Cluster of differentiation (CD) markers' expression of 100 pre-apheresis and 100 platelet apheresis samples was compared after the completion of platelet apheresis procedure.
A novel collaborative approach among the Special Operations Command, the Army Medical Research and Material Command, the Army Blood Program (ABP), and CTSA has been in the works to amend the Expanded Access IND to provide apheresis plasma collected by the ABP as the source material for CTSA to manufacture FDP.
Apheresis is a special process where whole blood is removed from a patient, separated into its components, including plasma and red blood cells, and re-transfused into the patient after removing and replacing the blood component that contributes to a disease.
The Shaikh Khalifa Medical City (SKMC) has completed 500 apheresis sessions over the past three years.
Apheresis is a medical technology in which the blood of a donor or patient is passed through an apparatus that separates out one particular constituent and returns the remainder to the circulation.
Apheresis involves removing whole blood from a donor or patient and separating the blood into individual components so that one particular component can be removed.
Acute myocardial infarction secondary to platelet apheresis in a 57-year healthy donor.
Therapeutic apheresis: A physician's hand-book (2nd ed.).
LOJUXTA is indicated as an adjunct to a low-fat diet and other lipid-lowering medicinal products with or without low density lipoprotein (LDL) apheresis in adult patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH).
Washington, March 3 ( ANI ): Loyola University Medical Center is offering a treatment called LDL apheresis, which is similar to kidney dialysis, for patients who have been unable to control cholesterol with lifestyle changes and medications.
Holder, (3) the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit considered the constitutionality of banning compensation for bone marrow extraction through the new and less invasive peripheral blood stem cell apheresis ("apheresis") procedure under NOTA.
The second technique, apheresis, extracts PBSCs from the blood through a machine after a drug mobilizes the stems cells to leave the marrow cavity and enter the blood stream.