In recent years, as many of the diseases for which allogeneic HPC transplantation is indicated are associated with advancing age; this therapy has been increasingly offered to patients in their sixth ...

We describe a volunteer donor who developed an arteriovenous fistula after peripheral blood progenitor cell donation. The donor is a 23-year-old healthy woman. She received G-CSF 10 μg/kg/day ...

Dr. Michael Linenberger of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has been awarded one of the highest honors in the field of apheresis, the medical subspecialty that uses automated methods to separate ...

A new study has identified a blood-cleansing procedure known as therapeutic apheresis as a potential game-changer in kidney transplant management, raising fresh hope for patients facing transplant ...

Using apheresis, blood is temporarily removed from the vein and put through an apheresis machine which separates the blood. PHOTO/COURTESY According to Dr Daniel Muyanja, the director of clinical ...