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cytapheresis

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cytapheresis /cyt·a·phe·re·sis/ (sīt″ah-fer-e´sis) apheresis of blood cells; see erythrocytapheresis, leukapheresis, and thrombocytapheresis.
cy·ta·phe·re·sis (st-f-rss)
n.
A procedure in which various cells can be separated from withdrawn blood and retained, with the plasma and other formed elements retransfused into the donor.

cytapheresis
a procedure in which cells of one or more kinds (leukocytes, platelets, etc.) are separated from whole blood and retained, the plasma and other formed elements being retransfused into the donor; it includes leukapheresis and thrombocytapheresis.

cytapheresis
Transfusion medicine 1. The separation and collection of blood cells by hemapheresis. Cf Leukapharesis, Plateletpheresis 2. The collection of cells for therapeutic transfusion. See Apheresis.


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Merrill Meyer, a Prosorba column patient in the Phase III clinical trial, will present a patient's perspective, and Gayla Nagy, RN, Apheresis Coordinator at the Cytapheresis Unit of Southwest Texas Methodist Hospital, will discuss advances in apheresis technology.
 
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