Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A process in which plasma is taken from donated blood and the remaining components, mostly red blood cells, are returned to the donor.
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- noun medicine A procedure in which whole
blood is removed from a donor or patient andcentrifuged to isolateblood cells that are resuspended in a compatible solution and re-injected into the donor or patient.
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- noun plasma is separated from whole blood and the rest is returned to the donor
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Basically, they're using a technique called plasmapheresis to cleanse antibodies from patients' blood before transplantation.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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TPE also referred to as plasmapheresis is an extracorporeal blood purification technique to remove part of a patient's blood called plasma, while replacing it with another substance such as fresh frozen plasma or a solution containing albumin.
NxStage® Receives FDA Clearance for Therapeutic Plasma Exchange (TPE) Cartridge - Yahoo! Finance 2011
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"You are going to die a lot earlier sitting on that dialysis machine than if you get transplanted," says Melancon, whose goal is to pair domino kidney exchanges and the blood-cleansing treatment called plasmapheresis to narrow the troubling disparities.
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"You are going to die a lot earlier sitting on that dialysis machine than if you get transplanted," says Melancon, whose goal is to pair domino kidney exchanges and the blood-cleansing treatment called plasmapheresis to narrow the troubling disparities.
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"You are going to die a lot earlier sitting on that dialysis machine than if you get transplanted," says Melancon, whose goal is to pair domino kidney exchanges and the blood-cleansing treatment called plasmapheresis to narrow the troubling disparities.
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"You are going to die a lot earlier sitting on that dialysis machine than if you get transplanted," says Melancon, whose goal is to pair domino kidney exchanges and the blood-cleansing treatment called plasmapheresis to narrow the troubling disparities.
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"You are going to die a lot earlier sitting on that dialysis machine than if you get transplanted," says Melancon, whose goal is to pair domino kidney exchanges and the blood-cleansing treatment called plasmapheresis to narrow the troubling disparities.
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"You are going to die a lot earlier sitting on that dialysis machine than if you get transplanted," says Melancon, whose goal is to pair domino kidney exchanges and the blood-cleansing treatment called plasmapheresis to narrow the troubling disparities.
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She went through four sessions of a process called plasmapheresis, which removes the plasma from the blood and allows transplants to take place between two different blood types.
The Marietta Times 2009
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"You are going to die a lot earlier sitting on that dialysis machine than if you get transplanted," says Melancon, whose goal is to pair domino kidney exchanges and the blood-cleansing treatment called plasmapheresis to narrow the troubling disparities.
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