Onder Arslan, Mutlu Arat, Ibrahim Tek, Erol Ayyildiz, Osman Ilhan
BACKGROUND: The number of therapeutic procedures is increasing steadily year by year with growing collaboration of departments other than Hematology. In the aim to demonstrate our single center activity we analyzed our data since four years. METHODS: Between years 1998 and 2001, 658 therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) procedures were performed on 158 patients. Median age and male/female ratio were 37 (range, 15-87) and 80/78, respectively. Main indications were myastenia gravis (n=55, 34%), TTP (n=13, 8...
June 2004: Transfusion and Apheresis Science