(n.) The dropping of a letter or syllable from the beginning of a word; e. g., cute for acute.
(n.) An operation by which any part is separated from the rest.
Example Sentences:
(1) Circulating numbers did not fall significantly during apheresis.
(2) Platelet concentrates collected by continuous flow automated apheresis (Fenwal CS-3000) were compared with those collected by manual apheresis to determine whether the prolonged centrifugation and vigorous resuspension affected platelet viability and in vitro function.
(3) Since exposure to blood products occurs on a daily basis during hemapheresis, the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic has a serious impact both for patients undergoing apheresis procedures as well as for health professionals working in the field.
(4) The incorporation of three sessions of apheresis, removing 90% of plasma and 30% of platelet population, into the conventional treatment schedule is shown to have an anticoagulant, thrombolytic and platelet hypersensitivity-controlling effect.
(5) The overall CE was calculated from the pre-apheresis cell counts and the stated blood volume processed.
(6) A blood sampling pack is available on closed system apheresis kits for the Fenwal CS3000 blood cell separator to facilitate same day donor testing while maintaining the closed system.
(7) Ethylene oxide gas, which was used to sterilize plastic components in the disposable apheresis kits, represented a possible source of sensitization.
(8) Peripheral stem cell apheresis and lymphocytapheresis are bringing patients with metastatic malignancies to the apheresis department with increasing frequency, and the apheresis staff must be alert to previously undescribed complications of apheresis.
(9) After transfusions which produced satisfactory responses, we identified the original whole blood donors to serve as apheresis donors.
(10) The COBE Spectra System will perform all types of apheresis procedures.
(11) Maintenance lipid apheresis administered 1 time per week resulted in a sustained reduction of total and LDL cholesterol and was associated with a sustained improvement in blood flow properties.
(12) Plateletpheresis was performed on 34 healthy donors (26 male and 8 female), formerly experienced by other apheresis procedures.
(13) HDL-cholesterol levels were somewhat raised, to a higher extent with dextran sulfate apheresis.
(14) A recent development of this procedure is LDL-apheresis, that is the selective removal of atherogenic LDL and the return to the patient of his own LDL-depleted plasma.
(15) A large animal model is needed to evaluate new apheresis technologies.
(16) The patient had received long-term LDL apheresis for 6 years and 7 months and had shown angiographic regression.
(17) These results suggested that LDL-apheresis using the dextran-sulphate cellulose column, may cause an increase in the turnover rate of the apo E-containing HDL and thus facilitate cholesterol removal from the peripheral tissues.
(18) Optimally adjusted anticoagulation under LDL apheresis is essential for successful treatment: Excessive anticoagulation exposes the outpatient to the risk of uncontrolled hemorrhage, insufficient anticoagulation may shorten the duration of utilization of the immune-adsorption columns.
(19) To assure that apheresis procedures are carried out in a safe, efficient and appropriate manner with minimum risk and maximum benefit.
(20) Low-density lipoprotein apheresis (LDL-apheresis) was done with either cascade filtration (DF) or dextran sulfate cellulose adsorption (DSC) in a patient with primary biliary cirrhosis who developed severe dyslipidemia associated with cholestasis and accumulation of lipoprotein-X (LP-X).
Dialysis
Definition:
(n.) Diaeresis. See Diaeresis, 1.
(n.) Same as Asyndeton.
(n.) Debility.
(n.) A solution of continuity; division; separation of parts.
(n.) The separation of different substances in solution, as crystalloids and colloids, by means of their unequal diffusion, especially through natural or artificial membranes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dialysis of dog plasma against an artificial c.s.f.
(2) In contrast sham-hemodialysis in group CA and group PS, respectively, did not result in significant increases in amino acid efflux from the leg implying that the protein catabolic effect of blood membrane contact depends on the chemical properties of dialysis membranes.
(3) A retrospective study was done in 86 patients on dialysis in order to evaluate the doses of aluminum hydroxide (OH3 Al) received to achieve a better serum phosphate control.
(4) In all patients a Tenckoff's catheter for peritoneal dialysis was introduced and peritoneal effusion extracted and measured.
(5) It demonstrates for the first time that dialysis patients have detectable plasma levels of IL-1 compared to normal individuals.
(6) Increased velocity of motor conduction in at least one nerve related directly proportionally to the Cs concentration of the serum was demonstrated in 56-70% of the patients after one dialysis.
(7) Interfering macromolecular serum components were left outside the capsule during the centrifugation or forced dialysis.
(8) A crude extract of Brucella melitensis was obtained by sonication, centrifugation and dialysis, and analyzed by quantitative immunoelectrophoresis.
(9) Ceftriaxone, a cephalosporin, is bound reversibly to defatted human serum albumin from adults, with a first stoichiometric binding constant of 60,000 M-1, as found by equilibrium dialysis at pH 7.4, 37 degrees.
(10) Por the treatment of L.A., adjunction of dialysis and furosemide improved the efficacy of early and massive sodium bicarbonate infusion.
(11) Removal of KSCN by dialysis resulted in the recovery of biological activity and of certain characteristic structural properties.
(12) Seven patients had been receiving hemodialysis for a median of 3.3 years; the other two were receiving continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis.
(13) In different dialysis strategies (hemodialysis with Gambro 1.5 m2, RP6 1 m2, Vita 2 1.2 m2), sequential ultrafiltration with RP 6 (1 hour ultrafiltration followed by 3 hours of hemodialysis and hemoperfusion with Absorba 300 C) serum chromatographic pattern and medium size molecules were studied with Sephadex G 15 chromatography.
(14) Nineteen Dacron velour fistula bypasses between the brachial artery and median basilic vein were performed in fifteen selected patients for a total dialysis period of ninety-six months.
(15) In nondiabetic patients, glycosylated hemoglobin levels were within the normal range (4.0% to 6.8% of total blood hemoglobin levels) for both continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis.
(16) The immunogenicity of the polyvalent pneumococcal vaccine was studied in renal allograft recipients and dialysis patients.
(17) Flow dialysis was used to study the binding of MgATP and MgADP to the nitrogenase proteins of Azotobacter vinelandii.
(18) Thirteen patients with end-stage renal disease aged 70 years have been successfully treated by chronic dialysis treatment.
(19) The in vitro dissolution study carried out using dynamic dialysis revealed that the release of adriamycin from these particles follows a bi-phasic pattern.
(20) Forty-five children with stable chronic renal failure, not on dialysis, were treated conservatively with a regimen of mild dietary phosphate restriction and high-dose phosphate binders for up to 5 years.