Rheopheresis in patients with critical limb ischemia - Results of an open label prospective pilot trial

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 473-481

  Klingel, Reinhard ^a,b   Erdtracht, Bernard ^c   Gauss, Victor ^b   Piazolo, Andreas ^d   Mausfeld Lafdhiya, Patrick ^a   Diehm, Curt ^d  

^a Apheresis Research Institute   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d Klinikum Karlsbad Langensteinbach   (Germany)

Author keywords

Critical limb ischemia; Fibrinogen; Microcirculation; Peripheral artery disease; Rheopheresis

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2 MACROGLOBULIN; FIBRINOGEN; HEMOGLOBIN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEG AMPUTATION; LIMB ISCHEMIA; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; PAIN; PILOT STUDY; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEOPHERESIS; SAFETY; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; TISSUE OXYGENATION; TRANSCUTANEOUS OXYGEN MONITORING; WOUND HEALING; BLOOD; BLOOD FLOW; ISCHEMIA; LEG; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; ALPHA-MACROGLOBULINS; BLOOD GAS MONITORING, TRANSCUTANEOUS; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; ISCHEMIA; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PLASMAPHERESIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTEINS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SKIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33645904509     PISSN: 17449979     EISSN: 17449987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-9987.2005.00276.x     Document Type: Article

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