Long-Term Red Blood Cell Exchange Can Be Used to Successfully Treat Sickle Cell Intrahepatic Cholestasis: A Case Report

Journal of Clinical Apheresis

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 17-19

  Tiftik, Naci ^a   Altintaş, Engin ^a   Kiykim, Ahmet ^a   Üçbilek, Enver ^a   Sezgin, Orhan ^a  

^a MERSIN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Chronic; Erthrocytapheresis; Hepatic crisis; Sickle cell anemia

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA;

ADULT; APHERESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTAPHERESIS; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAHEPATIC CHOLESTASIS; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER BIOPSY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SICKLE CELL INTRAHEPATIC CHOLESTASIS;

ADULT; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; CHOLESTASIS, INTRAHEPATIC; CYTAPHERESIS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; PLASMA EXCHANGE;

EID: 1942521811     PISSN: 07332459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jca.10077     Document Type: Article

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