American society for apheresis guidelines support use of red cell exchange transfusion for severe malaria with high parasitemia

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 302-303

  Shaz, Beth H ^a,b   Schwartz, Joseph ^c   Winters, Jeffrey L ^d   Padmanabhan, Anand ^e   Balogun, Rasheed A ^f   Delaney, Meghan ^g   Szczepiorkowski, Zbigniew M ^h   Williams, Mark E ⁱ   Wu, Yanyun ^g   Linenberger, Michael L ^j  

^a NEW YORK BLOOD CENTER   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Department of Medicine   (United States)

^d MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^e Blood Center of Wisconsin   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^g PUGET SOUND BLOOD CENTER   (United States)

^h DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^j Seattle Cancer Care Alliance ^*  (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APHERESIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; EXCHANGE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; HUMAN; LETTER; MALARIA; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MORTALITY; PARASITEMIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL;

EXCHANGE TRANSFUSION, WHOLE BLOOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE;

EID: 84891791150     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cit662     Document Type: Letter

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