Technology term
Therapeutic Apheresis
A medical procedure that draws blood from a patient, separates out the plasma, passes it through a filter or adsorption column to remove specific substances such as cholesterol-carrying lipoproteins, then returns the cleaned plasma to the body. It has been used for decades to treat severe, treatment-resistant lipid disorders.
English
Therapeutic Apheresis
Arabic
فصادة الدم العلاجية (Therapeutic Apheresis)
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A Cholesterol-Filtering Treatment Also Pulled "Forever Chemicals" Out of Patients' Blood
