A new blood donation strategy: automated blood collection (ABC).

Background: The aim of this study was to find out if Cobe Trima, a blood cell separator that automatically collects RBC, PLT and plasma, is adequate for routine multiple blood donation by apheresis.

Materials And Methods: Eighty donors underwent multiple blood component donations by Cobe Trima. Blood counts were determined on the apheresis products to analyze their quality.

The application of two different blood cell separators to harvest CD34+ cells in patients suffering from non Hodgkin's lymphoma.

From January 1996 until now, thirty-eight PBSC procedures were carried out on 20 patients suffering from NHL, mobilized by polichemotherapy regimens plus recombinant human Granulocyte-Growth Factor (rhG-CSF). Patients were enrolled in PBSC procedures using Dideco Excel (group A) and Cobe Spectra v.4.

Large volume leukapheresis for collecting hemopoietic progenitors: role of CD 34+ precount in predicting successful collection.

In this work we evaluated the efficacy of stem cell collection with Large Volume Procedures. (LVP), and analysed the importance of the CD34+ cell precount in promoting the collection of a sufficient number of CD34+ cells for transplantation, using the Univariate Logistic Regression analysis. Eighty-nine leukapheresis were performed in 49 patients with hematological malignancies and solid tumors, mobilized with chemotherapy plus Granulocyte Colony Stimulating Factor (G-CSF).

Evaluation of two different protocols for peripheral blood stem cell collection with the Fresenius AS 104 blood cell separator.

Objectives: Reconstitution of hematopoiesis by means of peripheral blood stem cells is a valid alternative to autologous bone marrow transplantation. The aim of this investigation was to increase the efficiency of collection of circulating blood progenitor cells and to obtain a purer product for transplant.

Methods: We carried out leukapheresis procedures with the Fresenius AS 104 blood cell separator, using two different protocols, the previously used PBSC-LYM and a new mononuclear cell collection program.