Erythrocytapheresis: Do Not Forget a Useful Therapy!
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Erythrocytapheresis: Do Not Forget a Useful Therapy! / Ullrich, Heidrun; Fischer, Roland; Grosse, Regine; Kordes, Uwe; Schubert, Claudia; Altstadt, Bettina; Andreu, Georges.
In: TRANSFUS MED HEMOTH, Vol. 35, No. 1, 2008, p. 24-30.Research output: SCORING: Contribution to journal › SCORING: Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Erythrocytapheresis: Do Not Forget a Useful Therapy!
AU - Ullrich, Heidrun
AU - Fischer, Roland
AU - Grosse, Regine
AU - Kordes, Uwe
AU - Schubert, Claudia
AU - Altstadt, Bettina
AU - Andreu, Georges
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - SUMMARY: In patients with pathologically altered erythrocytes, red blood cell exchange is a very efficient therapeutic measure without important side effects. With increasing migration more patients with e.g. severe malaria or sickle cell anemia have to be treated. In minor or bidirectional ABO-mismatched stem cell transplantations after reduced intensity conditioning, hemolysis can be prevented by prophylactic erythrocytapheresis. Other rare indications for red blood cell exchange are advanced erythropoietic protoporphyria and babesiosis. Sickle cell anemia can be treated with hydroxyurea. Transfusions are administered when necessary, but this results in iron overload in the long term. An expensive but safe and very efficient treatment alternative is red blood cell exchange. In cases with stroke, acute chest syndrome and other severe complications, erythrocytapheresis reproducibly breaks the vicious circle of sickling and increasing oxygen deficiency. At the same time one can aim at an exact end hematocrit. In severe malaria, erythrocytapheresis both reduces parasite load to the designated extent and reconstitutes reduced oxygen transport capacity without serious adverse effects. Here we describe our experience of erythrocytapheresis in long-term prophylaxis of complications in sickle cell anemia and sickle cell thalassemia patients. The documentation of improved iron balance was carried out by liver susceptometry.
AB - SUMMARY: In patients with pathologically altered erythrocytes, red blood cell exchange is a very efficient therapeutic measure without important side effects. With increasing migration more patients with e.g. severe malaria or sickle cell anemia have to be treated. In minor or bidirectional ABO-mismatched stem cell transplantations after reduced intensity conditioning, hemolysis can be prevented by prophylactic erythrocytapheresis. Other rare indications for red blood cell exchange are advanced erythropoietic protoporphyria and babesiosis. Sickle cell anemia can be treated with hydroxyurea. Transfusions are administered when necessary, but this results in iron overload in the long term. An expensive but safe and very efficient treatment alternative is red blood cell exchange. In cases with stroke, acute chest syndrome and other severe complications, erythrocytapheresis reproducibly breaks the vicious circle of sickling and increasing oxygen deficiency. At the same time one can aim at an exact end hematocrit. In severe malaria, erythrocytapheresis both reduces parasite load to the designated extent and reconstitutes reduced oxygen transport capacity without serious adverse effects. Here we describe our experience of erythrocytapheresis in long-term prophylaxis of complications in sickle cell anemia and sickle cell thalassemia patients. The documentation of improved iron balance was carried out by liver susceptometry.
U2 - 10.1159/000112044
DO - 10.1159/000112044
M3 - SCORING: Journal article
C2 - 21547107
VL - 35
SP - 24
EP - 30
JO - TRANSFUS MED HEMOTH
JF - TRANSFUS MED HEMOTH
SN - 1660-3796
IS - 1
ER -