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Transfusion cience Official Journal of the European Society for Haemapheresis Volume Contents and Author Index Volume 13 (1992) © PERGAMON PRESS Oxford - New York - Seoul - Tokyo TRANSFUSION SCIENCE Editor-in-Chief Gail A. Rock, PhD, MD, FRCP Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Editorial Assistant: Sylvie Nantais-Bourdeau Senior Editors Terence J. Hamblin, John Verrier Jones, Urs E. Nydegger, MD DM, FRCP, FRCPath BM, FRCP, FRCP(C) Bern, Switzerland Bournemouth, England Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Editorial Board Tetsuzo Agishi, MD Patrick Hervé, MD Jacques Pourrat, MD Toyko, Japan Besancon, France Toulouse, France Kenneth C. Anderson, MD Jeane P. Hester, MD Charles D. Pusey, MA, MB Boston, MA, U.S.A. Houston, TX, U.S.A. London, England Vittorio Bonomini Claes Hégman, MD Gerard Rifle, MD Bologna, Italy Uppsala, Sweden Dijon, France Helmut Borberg, MD Noboru Inoue E. Angela E. Robinson, MD, BS Cologne, Germany Tokyo, Japan Leeds, England Wayne A. Border, MD James P. Isbister, MD Charles Schiffer, MD Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A. Sydney, N.S.W., Australia Baltimore, MD, U.S.A. Noel A. Buskard, MD Peter Jacobs, PhD J. Seghatchian, PhD Vancouver, B.C., Canada Cape Town, South Africa London, England Annette Bussel, MD Louis Kater, MD C. Th. Smit Sibinga, MD, PhD Paris, France Utrecht, The Netherlands Groningen, The Netherlands David A. Ciavarella, MD Volker Kretschmer, MD Sherrill J. Slichter, MD Valhalla, NY, U.S.A. Marburg, Germany Seattle, WA, U.S.A. John D. Clough, MD Margot S. Kruskall, MD Ronald G. Strauss, MD Cleveland, OH, U.S.A. Boston, MA, U.S.A. Iowa City, IA, U.S.A. Peter C. Farrell, PhD, DSc C. Martin Lockwood, MD Edwin G. Taft, MD Kensington, N.S.W., Australia London, England Albany, NY, U.S.A. Ronald O. Gilcher, MD Gerald L. Messerschmidt, MD Richard S. A. Tindall, MD Oklahoma City, OK, U.S.A. Lackland AFB, TX, U.S.A. San Marino, CA, U.S.A. Hans Gurland, MD Alvaro A. Pineda, MD S. J. 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Members of the European Society for Haemapheresis (ESFH) may obtain a subscription at a concessionary rate as part of their ESFH membership. Please contact ESFH for details. Back Issues Back issues of all previously published volumes, in both hard copy and in microform, are available direct from Pergamon Press offices. Published Quarterly in January, April, July and October Copyright © 1992 Pergamon Press Ltd Vol. 13 No. 1 PROCEEDINGS FROM THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA RESEARCH CONTENTS Editorial Gail A. Rock Editorial Review Enrico Bobbio-Pallavicini An Introduction to Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura Carlo L. Balduini Acute Thrombocytopenias and Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura: Differential Diagnosis Gabriella Gamba HELLP Syndrome and Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura: A Brief Overview of a Difficult Diagnostic Problem A. Billio, M. Casini, I. Gentilini, O. Prinoth, P. Coser Endothelium, Thrombosis and Atherosclerosis Franco Piovella, Maria Maddalena Ricetti, Anna Samaden, Sandra Carbone, Massimo Vigotti, Sergio Siragusa von Willebrand Factor (vWF) Abnormalities in Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (TTP) and the Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS) Joel L. Moake Autoantibody Profile in Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura Roberto Caporali, Jihad Choucair, Enrico Bobbio-Pallavicini, Camillo Porta, Carlomaurizio Montecucco Cysteine Proteinase Activity in Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (TTP) A. Falanga, R. Consonni, P. Ruggenenti, G. Remuzzi, T. Barbui Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (TTP): Retrospective Study <i 84 Patients and Therapeutic Prospects Enrico Bobbio-Pallavicini, Camillo Porta, Gianluca Viarengo, Pier Maria Fornasari, Edoardo Ascari Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura: Prospective Treatment With a Standardized Regimen Lorence A. Gutterman Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura: The Israeli Experience .. Amiram Eldor, Asher M. Moser, Michal Rose, Dina Ben-Yehuda, Eliezer A. Rachmilewitz Ill Plasma Exchange in Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura Results in 5 Patients . ].-D. Aubert, M.-D. Schaller, Ph. Schneider, C. Perret Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura: Clinical Results of a French Controlled Trial Philippe Henon Steroids: What Role in TTP? Maurizio Gorini, Patrizia Luliri Antiplatelet Agents for the Treatment of Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura Riccardo Centurioni, Pietro Leoni, Lidia Da Lio, Serena Rupoli, Attilio Olivieri, Elisabetta D’Addezio, Marco Montillo, Giovanni Danieli Collateral Therapy of Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura With Emphasis on High Doses of Gamma Globulin .. A. Canevari, D. Inverardi The Results of Various Treatments in Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura: A Report of 18 Episodes in 12 Patients . Antonio Iacone, Antonio Spadano, Alfredo Dragani, Giuseppe Fioritoni, Domenico D’Antonio, Antonella Fornaro, Glauco Toreonatano EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR HAEMAPHERESIS: INFORMATION . cece Gail A. Rock HEMAPHERESIS LISTENING POST The Apheresis Operator . David Ciavarella SHS and ASFA Merger ... Helen G. Owen, M. Joleen Randels Report on Certification ... Karen E. Milakovic CURRENT TRENDS: EVOLVING CONCEPTS IN TRANSFUSION MEDICINE Who Should Receive Leukodepleted Blood Components? Kenneth C. Anderson INTERNATIONAL FORUM 10 Years of Apheresis in Canada G. A. Rock, C. A. Herbert, Members of the Canadian Apheresis Study Group SUBMITTED PAPERS Comparison Between the Levels of Anti-A/B IgM/G Antibodies in Paired Mother/Child Serum Samples Christian R. Hasler, Robert Rieben, Jean-Paul Buchs, Urs E. Nydegger IV Plasma Exchange in Rheumatoid Vasculitis ...........s.ssssssessssssseseeeees Rui Clemente Coelho, Miguel Leal Galvdo UPCOMING EVENTS .........++ scveevccsosssoosnoossooosonsssoosooosonesooessesess i Vol. 13 No. 2 SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS: CLINICAL, PATHOLOGICAL AND THERAPEUTIC ASPECTS CONTENTS ET ee or a -_— sinesienniiensianntdibidioniicatil 125 Gail A. Rock Editorial Review: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Clinical, Pathological and Therapeutic Aspects .........s-csssssssrseserenessesssessnesesees 127 John Verrier Jones Assessment of Disease Activity in LUpus ........--s-ssssssesssssessesesrseserees Dafna D. Gladman, Murray B. Urowitz Clinical Significance of Renal Biopsy in Subacute Lupus RSV CRROMRBOBSTS cccccccccccesccrccccssssosesesconbecsncssssnnenssooossoosssooscssossossooossocesees Michael Kashgarian Nervous System Involvement in Systemic weit TSV ERBERBOBOND cccocecccccssccesnsessssccsssnctetessossocesnbnssoenssesnsessonsssosseooseneeeseese 145 John G. Hanly Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Complexes and Their CTORERMCE .00200cccececesceseccesecseccocsensecsocssocsensssecooosoososoossocsossosooocoossoosoosesees John Verrier Jones Antibody Depletion and Cytotoxic Drug secneteidli n Severe Systemic Lupus Erythematosus ..........sscccorsseereesssesseesesesseseesenessnes Hans H. Euler, Johann O. Schroeder The Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patient and Transfusion PIED cccnsecnsniseinsninratemininestniatinneeneinn sessnsenntennesecseqnenssecsse Sandra Taddie Nance EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR HAEMAPHERESIS: REPORT .........-. U. E. Nydegger HEMAPHERESIS LISTENING POST Can (Should) Apheresis Supplant Whole Blood Collection? ........... David Ciavarella CURRENT TRENDS: EVOLVING CONCEPTS IN TRANSFUSION MEDICINE Leukoreduced Blood Components: “You Can Filter Now or You Can Filter Later’ 0 Walter H. Dzik INTERNATIONAL FORUM The Organization and Operation of Blood Transfusion Services in Andalusia ]. Garcia Rottldn NOTICE TO REVIEWERS OF MANUSCRIPTS TO OUR READERS SUBMITTED PAPERS Clinical and Immunologic Effects of Staphylococcal Protein A Immunoadsorption Therapy for Inhibitor to Factor VIII John Freedman, John W. Semple, Jerome Teitel, Keith Stewart, Bernadette Garvey Treatment of Congenital and Acquired Hemophilia Patients by Extracorporeal Removal of Antibodies to Coagulation Factors: A Review of US Clinical Studies 1987-1990 Robert M. Watt, Kimberly Bunitsky, Elizabeth B. Faulkner, Candace M. Hart, Jennifer Horan, J]. Michael Ramstack, Joanne L. Viola, Jerry R. Yordy and the Hemophilia Study Group The Effect of Iron Depletion on the Mental Performance of Non-anaemic Healthy Blood Donors Wayne Mackintosh, Peter Jacobs Leucocyte Depletion of Neocyte-rich Red Blood Cell Concentrates by Use of Immunomagnetic Beads B. Hacker-Shahin, D. ]. Giannitsis UPCOMING EVENTS Vol. 13 No. 3 INTRAVENOUS IMMUNOGLOBULINS CONTENTS Editorial: Intravenous Immunoglobulins Gail A. Rock Proposed Mechanisms of Action of Intravenous IgG (IVIG) in Autoimmune Diseases Thomas W. Jungi, Urs E. Nydegger Immunoglobulin Prophylaxis in ‘Septic Risk” Patients Undergoing Surgery for Sub-diaphragmatic Gastrointestinal Ferdinando Cafiero, Marco Gipponi, Carmine Di Somma, Luciano Moresco, Sergio Bertoglio, Chiara Sguotti, Giuseppe Corbetta IVIG Indications in Patients With Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia H. M. Chapel Kawasaki Disease and IVIG Treatment Stanford T. Shulman, Anne H. Rowley Intravenous Immunoglobulin in the Therapy of Systemic Vasculitis D. R. W. Jayne New Aspects of IvigG Treatment in Immune Hemocytopenias .... Peter Berchtold Adverse Effects of Intravenous Immunoglobulins Jtirg A. Schifferli Therapeutic Approach With IVIG in Patients Affected by Connective Tissue Disease A. Corvetta, M. M. Luchetti, G. Pomponio, N. Rinaldi, P. J. Spaeth INTERNATIONAL FORUM Italy and Apheresis: A Fresh Look at the End of 1991 M. Valbonesi SUBMITTED PAPERS Effective Concentration of Bone Marrow Mononuclear Cells Using Density Gradient Separation Within an Automated Cell Separator P. K. Baker, E. G. H. Rhodes, J. K. M. Duguid REVIEW ARTICLE: Artificial Blood Substitutes Philippe Schneider NEW PATENTS: New Patents and Published Patent Applications for the United States and Over 30 Other Countries Vol. 13 No. 4 STEM CELL TRANSFUSION CONTENTS Editorial Gail A. Rock Theme Editorial: Stem Cell Transfusion P. Hervé Stem Cells for Grafting P. Charbord Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation: Approaches to an Optimal Blood Stem Cell Collection C. Coffe, Y. Couteret, M. Devillers, T. Fest, P. Morel, F. Pouthier-Stein, ]. P. Calot, G. Novakovitch, X. Sitthy, P. ]. Tremisi vil Autologous Blood Stem Cell Grafting in Hematological Malignancies. Present Status and Future Directions Josy Reiffers, Gérald Marit, Gérard Vezon, Pascale Cony-Makhoul, Jean-Michel Boiron, Marion Montastruc, Alison Rice, Antoine Broustet Stem Cell Transfusion From Long-term Marrow Culture P. Charbord Clinical Applications of Stem Cell Transfusion From Cord Blood E. Gluckman, D. Thierry, S. Lesage, R. Traineau, ]. Gerotta, C. Rabian, Y. Brossard, ]. Van Nifterik, M. Benbunan Immunological Analysis of Umbilical Cord Blood Cells Evelyne Racadot, Pascal Van Lemmens, Maryse Billot, Joélle Pariset, Jean-Patrick Schaal, Emmanuel] Plouvier, Partick Hervé New Approaches for Bone Marrow Purging F. Beaujean, P. Hervé Perspectives in Marrow Graft T-cell Depletion in Allogeneic Matched Related Bone Marrow Transplantation Pierre Tiberghien, Patrick Hervé LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Anti-A/B Histobloodgroup IgM/G/A Serum Quantities to Monitor Outcome of Kidney Transplantation A. Sandberg-Tschopp, F. Horber, J. Lerut, R. Rieben, U. E. Nydegger SUBMITTED PAPERS Plasma Exchange in Relapsing Isolated Retinal Vasculitis Maurizio Govoni, G. Luca Lodi, Rita Scorrano A Fatal Case of Anti-Jr* Hitoshi Ohto Fetal Congenital Heart Block and Maternal Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Can Plasma Exchanges Play a Useful Role? .......... 463 Bruno Roche, Frangois Lhote, Jean-Emmanuel Chasseray, Yolande Godefroy, Olivier Meyer, Anne Leon, Marcel-Francis Kahn, Loic Guillevin Biocompatibility of Leukocyte Removal Filters During Bedside Leukocyte Filtration of Red Cell Concentrates Y. J. Gu, R. Obster, ]. de Haan, R. C. G. Gallandat Huet, W. van Oeveren NEW PATENTS: New Patents and Published Patent Applications for the United States and Over 30 Other Countries UPCOMING EVENTS