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Leucocyte apheresis

Leucocyte apheresis History In 1914, Abel et al. developed the therapeutic hemapheresis procedure to avoid the major side effect of bloodletting (Daskalakis 2026).In the 1990s, a method of leukocytapheresis was developed in Japan for the treatment of chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (Kiefel 20...

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