(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).
Pathological
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to pathology.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pathological and immunocytochemical data supported the diagnosis of medullary thyroid carcinoma.
(2) Among the pathological or abnormal ECGs (25.6%) prevailed the vegetative-functional heart diseases with 92%.
(3) We conclude that chronic emphysema produced in dogs by aerosol administration of papain results in elevated pulmonary artery pressure, which is characterized pathologically by medial hypertrophy of small pulmonary arteries.
(4) Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy are frequently accompanied by deteriorated renal functions and by pathological lesions in the glomeruli.
(5) In addition, pathological dexamethasone-tests may indicate an increased suicide-risk in these patients.
(6) These same molecules may be equally responsible for the pathologic characteristics of the immune response seen, for example, in inflammatory bowel diseases.
(7) Periosteal chondroma is an uncommon benign cartilagenous lesion, and its importance lies primarily in its characteristic radiographic and pathologic appearance which should be of assistance in the differential diagnosis of eccentric lesions of bones.
(8) The pathology resulting from a missense mutation at residue 403 further suggests that a critical function of myosin is disrupted by this mutation.
(9) Because of the short detachment interval, and the absence of underlying pathology or trauma, the recovery process described here probably represents an example of optimum recovery after retinal reattachment.
(10) A review is made from literature and an inventory of psychological and organic factors implicated in this pathology.
(11) SD is shown to have therapeutic and differential diagnostic significance in varying pathological conditions of cerebral dopaminergic systems.
(12) Four of the five ectopic pregnancies occurred in patients with previously documented tubal pathology.
(13) It is concluded that fibroblast replication is an important mechanism leading to the pathologic fibrosis seen in graft versus host disease and, by analogy, probably other types of immunologically mediated fibrosis.
(14) In one of the cirrhotic patients, postmortem correlation of sonographic, angiographic, and pathological findings showed that the dilated vessels seen on sonography were cystic veins draining normally into the portal vein rather than portosystemic anastomoses.
(15) In a control scheme for enzootic-pneumonia-free herds, 43 herds developed enzootic pneumonia, as judged by non-specific clinical and pathological criteria over 10 years.
(16) This series of tests included tests for pathologic nystagmus, saccades, smooth pursuit, and optokinetic nystagmus, as well as bithermal caloric testing and rotational testing.
(17) Schistosomal obstructive uropathy was studied by clinical, laboratory epidemiologic and pathologic analysis in 155 Egyptian patients treated surgically.
(18) Internal fixation of these pathological fractures appeared to be the best treatment.
(19) These findings suggest that Sch 40120 is a potent anti-inflammatory agent that may be particularly useful in the treatment of inflammatory diseases such as psoriasis in which leukotrienes appear to be major mediators of the pathological symptoms that characterize the disease state.
(20) Based upon the analysis of 1015 case records of patients, aged 16-70, with different hip joint pathology types, carried out during 1985-1990, there were revealed mistakes and complications after reconstructive-restorative operations.