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Most of the diseases for which apheresis therapy is indicated are intractable and rare, and each patient has a different background and treatment course prior to apheresis therapy initiation. Therefore, it is difficult to conduct large-scale randomized controlled trials to secure high-quality evidence. Under such circumstances, the American Society for Apheresis (ASFA) issued its guidelines in 2007, which were repeatedly revised until the latest edition in 2019. The ASFA guidelines are comprehensive. However, in the United States, a centrifugal separation method is mainly used for apheresis, whereas the mainstream procedure in Japan is the membrane separation method...
December 2021: Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis