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Utilizing state-of-the-art apheresis equipment, patient services provides a variety of component therapies, including:
Removes harmful cells from a patient's blood.
Conditions/complications treated with cellular depletion therapies:
- Acute or chronic leukemia
- Thrombocytosis
- Leukostasis (pulmonary or cerebral)
Patient Services enables healthcare providers to avoid costly patient hospitalization for transfusion administration offering blood component transfusions (red cell, platelets and clotting factors) on an outpatient basis.
With the identification of circulating blood as a preferred source of transplantable stem cells, Patient Services offers peripheral stem cell collection, storage and bedside delivery to patients undergoing transplantation for malignant and non-malignant diseases. Collections can be performed in hospitals or at Blood Center facilites.
Conditions treated through peripheral stem cell transplantation:
- Breast Cancer
- Ovarian Cancer
- Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
- Multiple Myeloma
Through therapeutic erythrocytapheresis, defective red blood cells can be removed and substituted with healthy ones, alleviating complications associated with sickle cell anemia and other conditions.
Patient Services also offers other specialized apheresis services, including Protein A immunoadsorption and Photopheresis.
Replacement of patient's plasma with sterile albumin solution or healthy plasma to remove pathogenic substances.
Conditions treated by therapeutic plasma exchange:
- Guillian Barre
- Myasthenia gravis
- Cryoglobulinemias
- Macroglobulinemias
- Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
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