A last resort modality using cryofiltration apheresis for the treatment of cold hemagglutinin disease in a Veterans Administration Hospital

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 398-403

  Siami, Flora S ^a   Siami, Ghodrat A ^b,c  

^a NEW ENGLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cold agglutinin; Cryoglobulin filter; Hemolytic anemia; Membrane plasma filter; Plasma exchange; Plasmapheresis

Indexed keywords

BLOOD GROUP I ANTIGEN; COLD AGGLUTININ; CRYOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

ACROCYANOSIS; ADULT; AGED; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANTIBODY TITER; APHERESIS; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLD EXPOSURE; COLD HEMAGGLUTININ DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; CRYOFILTRATION APHERESIS; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FILTRATION; GOVERNMENT; HEMAGGLUTINATION; HEMOLYSIS; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; MALE; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOSIS;

AGED; ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC, AUTOIMMUNE; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FILTRATION; HEMATOCRIT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMAPHERESIS; RETREATMENT;

EID: 10044251384     PISSN: 10916660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-0968.2004.00182.x     Document Type: Article

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