Distribution of indications and procedures within the framework of centers participating in the WAA apheresis registry.
The WAA apheresis registry was established in 2003 and an increasing number of centers have since then included their experience and data of their procedures. The registry now contains data of more than 74,000 apheresis procedures in more than 10,000 patients. This report shows that the indications for apheresis procedures are changing towards more oncological diagnoses and stem cell collections from patients and donors and less therapeutic apheresis procedures. In centers that continue to register, the total extent of apheresis procedures and patients treated have expanded during the latest years.
Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umea University, Umeå, Sweden. Electronic address: bernd.stegmayr@umu.se.
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Stegmayr
Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umea University, Umeå, Sweden.
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Mörtzell Henriksson
Bone Marrow Transplant & Apheresis, New South Wales, Australia.
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Newman
St. Anna, Vienna, Austria.
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Witt
Apheresis Unit, AKH, Vienna, Austria.
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Derfler
Apheresis Unit, AKH, Vienna, Austria.
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Leitner
Department of Nephrology, University hospital, Gent, Belgium.
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Eloot
Department of Nephrology, University hospital, Gent, Belgium.
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Dhondt
Department of Medical oncology-hematology, AZ Delta, Roselare, Belgium.
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Deeren
Canadian Apheresis Group, Canada.
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Rock
Transfusion Medicine, Frydek-Mistek, Czechia.
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Ptak
Transfusion Medicine, Hradec Kralove, Czechia.
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Blaha
Transfusion Medicine, Hradec Kralove, Czechia.
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Lanska
Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Prague, Czechia.
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Gasova
Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Prague, Czechia.
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Bhuiyan-Ludvikova
Apheresis Unit, University Hospital, Ostrava, Czechia.
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Hrdlickova
Apheresis Center North, Rostock, Germany.
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Ramlow
Apheresis Center North, Rostock, Germany.
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Prophet
Italian National Blood Centre, National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy.
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Liumbruno
Blood center, Livorno, Italy.
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Mori
Therapeutic Apheresis Unit, University Hospital, Vilnius, Lithuania.
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Griskevicius
Therapeutic Apheresis Unit, University Hospital, Vilnius, Lithuania.
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Audzijoniene
Sanquin, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Vrielink
Sanquin, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
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Rombout-Sestrienkova
Center for Immunology and Transfusion, Akers University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
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Aandahl
Department of Nephrology, University Hospital, Skopje, Macedonia.
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Sikole
Apheresis unit, Coimbra University Hospital, Coimbra, Portugal.
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Tomaz
Institute for Endocrinology, University Hospital, Belgrade, Serbia.
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Lalic
Transfusion Medicine and Transplantation Biology, University, Zagreb, Croatia.
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Bojanic
Apheresis Center, University Hospital, Orebro, Sweden.
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Strineholm
Department of Nephrology, University Hospital, Huddinge, Sweden.
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Brink
Clinical Immunology and transfusion medicine, Linköping University, Sweden.
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Berlin
Apheresis center, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden.
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Dykes
Blood Center, University Hospital, Umea, Sweden.
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Toss
Department of Nephrology, University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden.
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Nilsson
Blood Center, University, Uppsala, Sweden.
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Knutson
Department of Nephrology, Skaraborg Hospital, Skövde, Sweden.
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Ramsauer
Department of Nephrology, Karlstad, Sweden.
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Wahlstrom
D001781:Blood Component Removal / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D012042:Registries