title: Short-term femoral catheter insertion: a promising alternative to consistently allow long-term erythrocytapheresis therapy in children with sickle cell anemia.
abstract: Erythrocytapheresis procedures, increasingly used in the management of patients with severe complications of sickle cell disease, are limited by adequate venous access. We have successfully used short-term femoral catheter insertion, during a 6.5-year period for a total of 443 procedures, to perform long-term erythrocytapheresis in 18 consecutive children with sickle cell disease.
authors.affiliation: Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France.
authors.forename: Marie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Billard
authors.forename: Sylvie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Combet
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Hequet
authors.forename: Kamila
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kébaïli
authors.forename: Sylvie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lorthois
authors.forename: Corinne
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pondarre
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000755:Anemia, Sickle Cell / Q000628:therapy*; D002406:Catheterization, Peripheral / Q000379:methods; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D016238:Cytapheresis; D004912:Erythrocytes; D005268:Femoral Vein; D006801:Humans; D013997:Time Factors