(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).
Transfusion
Definition:
(n.) The act of transfusing, or pouring, as liquor, out of one vessel into another.
(n.) The act or operation of transferring the blood of one man or animal into the vascular system of another; also, the introduction of any fluid into the blood vessels, or into a cavity of the body from which it can readily be adsorbed into the vessels; intrafusion; as, the peritoneal transfusion of milk.
Example Sentences:
(1) The patient recovered completely following discontinuation of antibiotics, transfusion of red blood cells, and treatment with glucocorticoids.
(2) The influence of blood and blood-product therapy was studied in two groups of children: 1) 90 children who had exchange transfusion after birth because of serologic incompatibility (aged 5 months to 5 years).
(3) Both buffy coat and platelet transfusions evoked production of the non-specific blocking antibodies.
(4) This suggests that both blood transfusion and allograft are required for IL2 suppression and that this suppression may be related to the heart tolerance.
(5) He received blood transfusions every 2 or 3 weeks for the first 4 years of his life.
(6) Advances in blood banking and the availability of platelet transfusions have markedly decreased the incidence of fatal haemorrhage.
(7) The relationship between EPO concentration and the changes in Hct during the observation period did not differ between the non-transfusion group and transfusion group.
(8) A control group of five patients matched for age, transfusion dependence and sensitization status demonstrated no change during a comparable time interval.
(9) Use of blood and blood products increased annually as did the number of patients crossmatched and transfused.
(10) Early initiation of adequate antibiotic therapy, as well as symptomatic treatment using transfusion, steroids and anticonvulsants, are important.
(11) Treatment with chloroquine and primaquine, together with packed red cell transfusions, was successful in eliminating both the malaria parasites and the leukaemoid blood picture.
(12) An epidemiologic background appropriate to "serum" hepatitis, either transfusion (one bout) or illicit self-injection (46 bouts), was associated just as frequently with serologically non-B episodes as with identified type B disease.
(13) Of 145 consecutive hospitalized AIDS patients (CDC criteria), 34 (23%) presented with anemia requiring transfusion.
(14) Blood transfusion per se was not significant (p = 0.07).
(15) In recent years, apart from these well known risks, the immuno-suppressive effect of blood transfusions has been observed and thereby the possible adverse influence on the prognosis in cases of malignant disease.
(16) This instrument is valuable for use with intravascular fetal transfusions.
(17) The potassium load of transfused blood must be minimized.
(18) To determine whether perioperative blood transfusion affected the recurrence rate of squamous cell cancer of the head and neck, we performed a retrospective study of all patients with stage III and IV disease treated surgically at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, between 1983 and 1986.
(19) PMN-related transcellular eicosanoid synthesis may be involved in the pathogenesis of transfusion-evoked acute lung injury.
(20) A patient who had received multiple transfusions for complications of acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis developed a potent factor V anticoagulant with bleeding due to defective hemostasis.