Title | Advances in haemapheresis [electronic resource] : Proceedings of the Third International Congress of the World Apheresis Association. April 9-12,1990, Amsterdam, The Netherlands / edited by C. Th. Smit Sibinga, L. Kater |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1991 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3904-9 |
Descript | XXIII, 270 p. online resource |
I. Plasmapheresis: Centrifugation versus filtration -- Introductory remarks to the plenary symposium: Centrifugation versus filtration -- The advantages of centrifugation in therapeutic plasmapheresis -- High performance systems for membrane plasmapheresis -- Two year clinical experience using a rotating filter for therapeutic plasma exchange -- Donor plasmapheresis technology -- II. Plasmapheresis in neurology -- Plasma exchange in peripheral neuropathy -- Plasma exchange and Guillian-Barrรฉ syndrome -- Are immunoglobulins superior to plasma exchange in the Guillain-Barrรฉ syndrome? -- Plasmapheresis in neurological disorder -- Therapeutic strategies in multiple sclerosis: The value of plasma exchange -- IIIA. Stem cells: Technology and mobilization -- Autologous transplantation of blood versus marrow derived hemopoietic stem cells -- Granulocyte macrophage progenitor numbers in peripheral blood stem cell autotransplantation -- Purged autologous bone marrow: Better or worse than circulating stem cells? -- Bone marrow stem cells: Purification and clinical results -- Collection and transplantation of peripheral hemopoietic stem cells. Results in 35 patients with hematological and non- hematological malignancies -- IIIB. Stem cells: Clinical Application -- Peripheral blood stem cell transplants in myeloma -- High dose chemotherapy and blood stem cell autologous graft in multiple myeloma -- Stem cell harvesting from umbilical cord blood: A new perspective -- Circulating stem cells for autografting: A perspective for hematopoietic growth factors -- IV. In vivo versus ex vivo modulation of lymphocytes -- In vivo versus ex vivo modulation of lymphocytes; Immunotherapy for hematological malignancies -- The promise of T cell immunotherapy of cancer -- Photopheresis: A new approach to the management of T-cell mediated disorders -- High levels of circulating hematopoietic progenitor cells after continuous infusion of high dose interleukin-2 in cancer patients -- V. Single versus multiple donor platelets -- Is leukocyte depletion important in the prevention of alloimmunization by random single donor platelet transfusion? -- UV-irradiation: Effects on the immune system and on platelet function, viability, and alloimmunization -- Purification of platelet concentrates by elutriation: Elutriated single versus pooled multiple donor platelets -- Platelet concentrates from buffy coats -- Selection of platelet apheresis donors for alloimmunized patients by ELISA platelet crossmatch versus HLA-matching