"Plasmapheresis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Procedure whereby plasma is separated and extracted from anticoagulated whole blood and the red cells retransfused to the donor. Plasmapheresis is also employed for therapeutic use.
| Descriptor ID |
D010956
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E02.120.770 E02.912.715
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| 2001 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Plasmapheresis" by people in Profiles.
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ADAMTS13, thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, and hemolytic uremic syndrome. Curr Hematol Rep. 2005 May; 4(3):167-9.
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Plasma from aged stored red blood cells delays neutrophil apoptosis and primes for cytotoxicity: abrogation by poststorage washing but not prestorage leukoreduction. J Trauma. 2001 Mar; 50(3):426-31; discussion 432.
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Unintentional platelet removal by plasmapheresis. J Clin Apher. 2001; 16(2):55-60.
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Weekly treatment of diet/drug-resistant hypercholesterolemia with the heparin-induced extracorporeal low-density lipoprotein precipitation (HELP) system by selective plasma low-density lipoprotein removal. Am J Cardiol. 1993 Apr 01; 71(10):816-22.
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Clinical application of the I.B.M. cell separator. Ir Med J. 1975 Sep 13; 68(17):407-11.