Published jointly by AABB and the American Society for Apheresis (ASFA), this Handbook — designed to fit conveniently in your lab coat pocket — provides a succinct and compact account of the most prevalent applications of all modalities of therapeutic apheresis, including cell depletion, plasmapheresis, photopheresis, erythrocytapheresis and off-line selective depletion. This handbook provides disease-specific content that is of great use to physicians who order or administer such therapies as well as technical content that assists other allied health personnel who perform the actual procedures.

Featured in this edition:

• Discussions of additional diseases.
• New disease categorizations.
• Leukocyte adsorptireapheresis.
• Liver support systems in development.
• More tables and lists.

(AABB/ASFA, 2008, soft cover, 245 pages, ISBN #978-1-56395-271-5)

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