Medical
Hours | ||
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Monday | 08:00 am | 05:00 pm |
Tuesday | 08:00 am | 05:00 pm |
Wednesday | 08:00 am | 05:00 pm |
Thursday | 08:00 am | 05:00 pm |
Friday | 08:00 am | 05:00 pm |
Description
The Therapeutic Apheresis Unit performs a variety of procedures using apheresis. Examples of procedures and cases supported by the unit include: therapeutic plasma exchange, heart transplant, kidney transplant, lung transplant, hematologic disorders, neurologic disorders, oncologic disorders, red blood cell exchange, sickle cell anemia, malaria, photopheresis, CTCL (cutaneous T-cell lymphoma), GVHD, heart transplant rejection, lung transplant rejection, cellular therapy collection (hematopoietic stem cell harvest), collecting CD34, CD56 and dendritic cells, white cell depletion, leukemia, platelet depletion, hematologic disorders, cancer, LDL apheresis and hypercholesterolemia.