Apheresis is a medical technology in which a person's blood is passed through an apparatus that separates out one particular constituent and returns the remainder to the circulation, making it an extracorporeal therapy. One of its principal uses is collecting hematopoietic stem cells for later transplant. Specific variants target different blood components, including plasma (plasmapheresis), white blood cells (leukapheresis) and, combined with light-based treatment, certain immune cells (photopheresis).
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Apheresis, separating and removing a blood component, is a core hematology procedure.
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Wikipedia contributors, Wikimedia Foundationhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apheresis, lead sectionQuote, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apheresis, lead section
Apheresis is a medical technology in which the blood of a person is passed through an apparatus that separates one particular constituent and returns the remainder to the circulation.
2. Source plasma apheresis and plasma-derived medicinal products: a historical review
Origins of plasmapheresis (section)Quote, Origins of plasmapheresis (section)
John Jacob Abel was credited with being the first to use the word plasmapheresis in 1914 and it is derived from the Greek verb withdrawing meaning to withdraw
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