Therapeutic plasmapheresis by continuous flow cnetrifugation.
This report reviews the experience at Auckland Hospital with continuous flow centrifugation as a mean of carrying out therapeutic plasmapheresis. Over a three year period from August 1975, 26 patients, most with dysproteinaemias or Goodpasture's syndrome, were treated with a total of 260 therapeutic procedures.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D019867:Anti-Glomerular Basement Membrane Disease / Q000628:therapy; D002498:Centrifugation / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008180:Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic / Q000628:therapy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010265:Paraproteinemias / Q000628:therapy; D010956:Plasmapheresis / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*