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Therapeutics > Biological Therapy > Blood Transfusion > Blood Component Transfusion

Preferred term

Blood Component Transfusion  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • The transfer of blood components such as erythrocytes, leukocytes, platelets, and plasma from a donor to a recipient or back to the donor. This process differs from the procedures undertaken in PLASMAPHERESIS and types of CYTAPHERESIS; (PLATELETPHERESIS and LEUKAPHERESIS) where, following the removal of plasma or the specific cell components, the remainder is transfused back to the donor.

Broader concept

In other languages

  • French

  • Transfusion d'éléments sanguins
  • Transfusion de composants sanguins
  • Transfusion de constituants du sang
  • Transfusion de constituants sanguins

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-CMNH924S-V

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