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extracorporeal /ex·tra·cor·po·re·al/ (-kor-por´e-al) situated or occurring outside the body.
Extracorporeal Outside of, or unrelated to, the body. Mentioned in: Acute Kidney Failure extracorporeal situated or occurring outside the body. extracorporeal circulation the circulation of blood outside the body, as through a hemodialyzer for removal of substances usually excreted in the urine, or through an extracorporeal circulatory support unit for carbon dioxide-oxygen exchange (see below). extracorporeal circulatory support unit a heart-lung machine. In animals used mainly in the investigation of cardiac prosthetic devices. |
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New, a New York researcher has devised a novel approach called extracorporeal photopheresis, which involves treating blood outside the body with a drug activated by light. Reduced Intensity Transplant Using Extracorporeal Photopheresis This milestone is as important for the CoreValve ReValving technology as the first-ever procedure waseI|not only because it avoided open-heart surgery for these very frail patients, but also because these uneventful procedures were performed in a cath lab without the use of extracorporeal bypass, or cardiac assistance, or even rapid pacing. |
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