apheresis

A medical procedure known as apheresis involves passing a patient’s blood through a machine to separate parts of the blood like platelets, white blood cells, or plasma for therapeutic or donation purposes and returns the remainder to circulation. Therefore, it is an extracorporeal treatment.

Plasmapheresis

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Plasmapheresis

Plasmapheresis Plasmapheresis, also known as therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE), is a non-surgical therapy that removes and replaces a patient’s blood plasma. Plasma means the liquid part of the blood and apheresis means a particular substance or component is removed from the blood. It is done to exchange plasma in the blood through an extracorporeal technique. … Read more