Exchange transfusion as a life-saving intervention in three patients with different haematological malignancies with severe hyperleukocytosis where leukapheresis was not available

Transfusion and Apheresis Science

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 397-402

  Barrett, Claire L ^a   Louw, Vernon J ^a   Webb, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; DAUNORUBICIN; DEXAMETHASONE; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; HYDROXYUREA; PREDNISONE; PROMETHAZINE; RETINOIC ACID; STEROID; VINCRISTINE SULFATE;

ADULT; ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CONFUSION; DIFFERENTIATION SYNDROME; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXCHANGE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; HYPERLEUKOCYTOSIS; HYPERVISCOSITY SYNDROME; INDUCTION CHEMOTHERAPY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTUBATION; LEUKAPHERESIS; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHILADELPHIA 1 CHROMOSOME; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; URTICARIA;

ADULT; EXCHANGE TRANSFUSION, WHOLE BLOOD; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LEUKAPHERESIS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84888434300     PISSN: 14730502     EISSN: 18781683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transci.2013.09.003     Document Type: Article

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