“The Transfusion Medicine Service in the Department of Pathology performs therapeutic apheresis on patients who have an illness associated with an abnormal cellular or plasma-based blood component,” ...

The fifth annual Apheresis Awareness Day is recognized on Tuesday, September 17, 2024, as designated by the American Society for Apheresis (ASFA). The purpose is to raise awareness of apheresis ...

Apheresis machine for extracorporeal elimination of LDL cholesterol in patients with familial hypercholesterolemia, hyperlipoproteinemia (a), hyperfibrinogenemia, transplant vasculopathy. The Plasmat ...

Napa resident Nancy Burlingame remembers the day her father’s life hung in the balance after he suffered an aneurysm. Hospital staff were searching desperately for blood for a transfusion during his ...

MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. – The world is searching for a treatment, a cure and a prevention for COVID-19. One piece of that puzzle may be tapped via the sap of human ...

Jeffrey Frist was getting desperate. Diagnosed with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) in 2012 after his first heart attack the year before, he had experienced a cardiovascular event every 11 months ...