title: Therapeutic apheresis in Asia: An Indonesia single center experience.
abstract: In developing countries, like Indonesia, apheresis is still a relative new procedure. Nowadays, therapeutic apheresis procedures are performed in the field of hematology and neurology, especially in the teaching hospitals in Indonesia. Therapeutic apheresis procedure, that is, leukocytapheresis, therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE), and thrombocytapheresis are already performed. In the period 2009-2013, 204 apheresis procedures in 137 patients to reduce the leukocytes, 72 TPE procedures in 17 patients, and 14 thrombocyte reductions were performed in the Sardjito hospital, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. In the future, to improve the therapeutic apheresis implementation, it is important to increase the insurance coverage and also should be considered to introduce the apheresis medicine into the curriculum of appropriate physician programs in Indonesia. Especially in Indonesia, a lot of efforts are still being needed to improve implementation of therapeutic apheresis.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, Gadjah Mada University/ Sardjito Hospital, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
authors.forename: Teguh
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Triyono
authors.affiliation: Department of Transfusion Medicine, Sanquin Blood Bank, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Hans
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Vrielink
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001208:Asia; D001792:Blood Platelets / Q000166:cytology; D006801:Humans; D007214:Indonesia; D007348:Insurance, Health; D015464:Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive / Q000097:blood / Q000628:therapy; D007962:Leukocytes / Q000166:cytology; D008875:Middle Aged; D010951:Plasma Exchange / Q000379:methods*; D010956:Plasmapheresis / Q000379:methods*; D010983:Plateletpheresis; D054198:Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma / Q000097:blood / Q000628:therapy; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: curriculum; implementation; insurance coverage; therapeutic apheresis