Dynamic Stochastic Optimization of Emergent Blood Collection and Distribution from Supply Chain Perspective by Xiangyu Jin, Huajun Tang, Yuxin Huang

“…Furthermore, numerical analysis is provided to test the feasibility of blood collection and distribution schemes and conduct sensitivity analysis to test the impacts of the relevant parameters (e.g., apheresis donation proportion of red blood cells (RBCs), distance between blood donors and blood facilities, and times of blood donation) on the scheme. …”
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Treatment of Severe Refractory Hematuria due to Radiation-Induced Hemorrhagic Cystitis with Dexamethasone by José Carlos Rodrigues Nascimento, Márcio Wilker Soares Campelo, Iuri Arruda Aragão, José Fernando Bastos de Moura, Lúcio Flávio Gonzaga Silva, Reinaldo Barreto Oriá

“…During 45 days of hospitalization, the patient underwent two cystoscopic procedures for urinary bladder flocculation, whole blood transfusions, and one platelet apheresis. None of these interventions led to clinical resolution. …”
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Humoral Acute Rejection in a Kidney Transplant Recipient with Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura by Ana Paola Rico-Portillo, José Ignacio Cerrillos-Gutierrez, Jorge Andrade-Sierra, Alfredo Gutiérrez-Govea, Enrique Rojas-Campos, Claudia Alejandra Mendoza-Cerpa, Benjamín Gómez-Navarro

“…A 47-year-old male was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease (CKD) in 2011; idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) was also diagnosed in 2011 refractory to medical treatment and finally treated with splenectomy (2017) without relapses since that date, 5 blood transfusions, and 4 platelet apheresis in 2017. Renal transplant from a living related donor (brother), ABO compatible, crossmatch were negative, sharing 1 haplotype. …”
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Factors Affecting ICU Stay and Length of Stay in the ICU in Patients with HELLP Syndrome in a Tertiary Referral Hospital by Elif Ağaçayak, Rezan Bugday, Nurullah Peker, Ugur Deger, Gönül Ölmez Kavak, Mehmet Siddik Evsen, Talip Gul

“…Fresh frozen plasma, erythrocyte suspension, apheresis, and random thrombocyte transfusion were observed to be significantly more in group 1 patients. …”
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REPEATED THERAPEUTIC LEUKAPHERESIS - A SOLE TREATMENT DURING PREGNANCY AS A BRIDGE BEFORE TYROSINE KINASE INHIBITORS FOR A PREGNANT WOMAN WITH CHRONIC MYELOGENOUS LEUKEMIA – A CASE... by Ivan Tonev, Chavdar Botev, Georgui Balatzenko, Milcho Mincheff

“…The patient was treated with two consecutive leukaphereses followed by weekly apheresis for about 3,5 months until the day of the delivery. …”
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Synchronized autologous T-cell immunotherapy with hyperthermia to previously heavy treated advanced renal cell carcinoma by Jun Ren, Congcong Li, Dazhao Xu, Kun Wan, Chuxiong Zeng, Lina Hu, Xianzhi Guo, Feifei Huo, Xiumei Rong, Xinna Zhou, Tiecheng Wu, Xiaoli Wang, Bo Sun, JingJing Lou, Amy Hobeika, Michael A. Morse, Herbert Kim Lyerly

“…The peripheral blood apheresis was completed to produce ACT in vitro periodically .The nonimplantable in-depth hyperthermia device where the intratumor temperature could reach 42.5 C was performed for the average of 45 min, twice per week. …”
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Therapeutic plasma exchange accelerates immune cell recovery in severe COVID-19 by Aurelie Guironnet-Paquet, Aurelie Guironnet-Paquet, Hind Hamzeh-Cognasse, Frederic Berard, Fabrice Cognasse, Fabrice Cognasse, Jean Christophe Richard, Hodane Yonis, Mehdi Mezidi, Olivier Desebbe, Bertrand Delannoy, Sophie Demeret, Clemence Marois, Clemence Marois, Clemence Marois, Samir Saheb, Quoc Viet Le, Mathieu Schoeffler, Paul Simon Pugliesi, Sophie Debord, Paul Bastard, Paul Bastard, Paul Bastard, Paul Bastard, Aurélie Cobat, Aurélie Cobat, Aurélie Cobat, Jean Laurent Casanova, Jean Laurent Casanova, Jean Laurent Casanova, Jean Laurent Casanova, Jean Laurent Casanova, Rémi Pescarmona, Sébastien Viel, Jean François Nicolas, Jean François Nicolas, Audrey Nosbaum, Audrey Nosbaum, Marc Vocanson, Olivier Hequet, Olivier Hequet

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Combined Age with Mean Decrease Rates of Total Bilirubin and MELD Score as a Novel and Simple Clinical Predictor on 90-Day Transplant-Free Mortality in Adult Patients with Acute Li... by Di Jin, Kai Kang, Bing-zhu Yan, Jian-nan Zhang, Jun-bo Zheng, Zhi-hui Wang, Di Wu, Yu-jia Tang, Xin-tong Wang, Qi-qi Lai, Yang Cao, Hong-liang Wang, Yang Gao

“…At present, plasma exchange (PE) is the main effective alternative treatment for ALF in ICU clinical practice, and high-volume plasma exchange (HVP) has been listed as a grade I recommendation for ALF management in the American Society for Apheresis (ASFA) guidelines. However, no existing models can provide a satisfactory performance for clinical prediction on 90-day transplant-free mortality in adult patients with ALF undergoing PE. …”
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Several factors that predict the outcome of large B‐cell lymphoma patients who relapse/progress after chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T‐cell therapy can be identified before cell a... by Alice Sýkorová, František Folber, Kamila Polgárová, Heidi Móciková, Juraj Ďuraš, Kateřina Steinerová, Aleš Obr, Adriana Heindorfer, Miriam Ladická, Ľubica Lukáčová, Erika Čellárová, Ivana Plameňová, David Belada, Andrea Janíková, Marek Trněný, Tereza Jančárková, Vít Procházka, Andrej Vranovský, Margaréta Králiková, Jan Vydra, Lukáš Smolej, Ľuboš Drgoňa, Martin Sedmina, Eva Čermáková, Robert Pytlík

“…Risk factors for not receiving further therapy after CAR‐Tx failure were high lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) levels before apheresis, extranodal involvement (EN), high ferritin levels before lymphodepletion (LD) and ECOG PS >1 at R/P. …”
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Desensitization With Imlifidase for HLA-Incompatible Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation: A Delphi International Expert Consensus by Lucrezia Furian, Uwe Heemann, Mats Bengtsson, Oriol Bestard, Isabelle Binet, Georg A. Böhmig, John Boletis, David Briggs, Frans H. J. Claas, Lionel Couzi, Emanuele Cozzi, Marta Crespo, Aiko P. J. De Vries, Fritz Diekmann, Magdalena Durlik, Denis Glotz, Ilkka Helantera, Annette Jackson, Stanley C. Jordan, Dirk Kuypers, Dirk Kuypers, Carmen Lefaucheur, Christophe Legendre, Tomas Lorant, Umberto Maggiore, Nizam Mamode, Smaragdi Marinaki, Annick Massart, Thomas Müller, Rainer Oberbauer, Lutz Renders, Dave Roelen, Jean-Luc Taupin, Ondřej Viklický, Angeliki Vittoraki, Annelies E. de Weerd, Maarten Naesens

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