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apheresis
Removal of blood or one of its components from the body for clinical purposes, generally by automated blood cell separators.
Procedure:
- cytapheresis removes cellular constituents
- plasmapheresis removes plasma returning cellular constituents
- photopheresis irradiates cellular constituents ex vivo
- selective LDL cholesterol removal for familial hypercholesterolemia [1]
Management:
- stop ACE inhibitor 24 hours before elective apheresis [1]
Specific
cytapheresis
photopheresis
plasmapheresis (plasma exchange)
General
clinical procedure
References
- Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 11, 16.
American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 1998, 2012
- Okafor C, Ward DM, Mokrzycki MH et al
Introduction and overview of therapeutic apheresis.
J Clin Apher. 2010;25(5):240-9
PMID: 20806281
- Szczepiorkowski ZM, Winters JL, Bandarenko N et al
Guidelines on the use of therapeutic apheresis in clinical
practice--evidence-based approach from the Apheresis
Applications Committee of the American Society for Apheresis.
J Clin Apher. 2010;25(3):83-177.
PMID: 20568098