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Apheresis units: designs and future applications

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Supportive therapy in haematology

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Apheresis units have been established to separate whole blood from a donor to obtain a specific component for transfusion into a patient, collection of a specific blood component for further processing to obtain a specific product, or the removal of a portion of a patient’s blood as an adjunct to the therapy of a disease state.

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  1. Red Cross Blood Bank, Groningen-Drenthe, The Netherlands

    P. C. Das  & C. Th. Smit Sibinga  & 

  2. Dept. of Haematology, University Hospital, Groningen, The Netherlands

    M. R. Halie

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Stahl, J.A., Pineda, A.A. (1985). Apheresis units: designs and future applications. In: Das, P.C., Sibinga, C.T.S., Halie, M.R. (eds) Supportive therapy in haematology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2577-2_4

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