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Transfusion cience Official Journal of the European Society for Haemapheresis Volume Contents and Author Index Volume 14 (1993) © PERGAMON PRESS Oxford - New York - Seoul - Tokyo TRANSFUSION SCIENCE Editor-in-Chief Gail A. Rock, PhD, MD, FRCP Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 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 Alvaro A. Pineda, MD Toyko, Japan Rochester, MN, U.S.A. Kenneth C. Anderson, MD Patrick Hervé, MD Jacques Pourrat, MD Boston, MA, U.S.A. Besancon, France Toulouse, France Vittorio Bonomini Jeane P. Hester, MD Charles D. Pusey, MA, MB Bologna, Italy Houston, TX, U.S.A. London, England Helmut Borberg, MD Claes Hégman, MD Gerard Rifle, MD Cologne, Germany Uppsala, Sweden Dijon, France Wayne A. Border, MD Noboru Inoue E. Angela E. Robinson, MD, BS Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A. Tokyo, Japan Leeds, England Noel A. Buskard, MD James P. Isbister, MD Charles Schiffer, MD Vancouver, B.C., Canada Sydney, N.S.W., Australia Baltimore, MD, U.S.A. Annette Bussel, MD Peter Jacobs, PhD J. Seghatchian, PhD Paris, France Cape Town, South Africa London, England David A. Ciavarella, MD Louis Kater, MD C. Th. Smit Sibinga, MD, PhD Valhalla, NY, U.S.A. Utrecht, The Netherlands Groningen, The Netherlands John D. Clough, MD Volker Kretschmer, MD Sherrill J. Slichter, MD Cleveland, OH, U.S.A. Marburg, Germany Seattle, WA, U.S.A. Peter C. Farrell, PhD, DSc Margot S. Kruskall, MD Ronald G. Strauss, MD Kensington, N.S.W., Australia Boston, MA, U.S.A. Iowa City, IA, U.S.A. John J. L. Freedman, MD C. Martin Lockwood, MD Edwin G. Taft, MD Toronto, Ontario, Canada Cambridge, 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 S. J. 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Non-VAT registered customers in the European Community will be charged the appropriate VAT in addition to the price listed. Prices include postage and insurance and are subject to change without notice. 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 © 1993 Pergamon Press Ltd Second class postage paid at RAHWAY, NJ. Postmaster send address corrections to Transfusion Science, c/o Pergamon Press Inc., 660 White Plains Road, Tarrytown, NY 10591-5153, U.S.A. Vol. 14 No. 1 Selected Proceedings from the 8th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Haemapheresis Editorial Gail A. Rock Plasma Exchange in Guillain-Barré Syndrome and Related Disorders ... R. A. C. Hughes Adsorption Therapy With Tryptophan-conjugated Polyvinyl Alcohol Gels in 10 Patients With Acute Guillain—Barré Syndrome C. Jiménez, F. Rosenow, P. Grieb, W. F. Haupt, H. Borberg Plasma Exchange and Selective Adsorption in Guillain-Barré Syndrome—A Comparison of Therapies by Clinical Course and Side Effects F. Rosenow, W. F. Haupt, P. Grieb, C. Jiménez-Klingberg, H. Borberg Semiselective Immunoadsorption of Anti-AChR abs on Tryptophan Column in Myasthenia Gravis. Clinical Experience in 32 Patients G. Avanzi, G. Marconi Plasma Exchange for Refsum’s Disease F. B. Gibberd Determination of Bleeding Risk in Thrombocytopenic Patients Receiving Platelet Substitution V. Kretschmer, B. Huss, G. Dietrich, ]. Heymanns, K-H. Pfliiger Leukocyte-depleted Platelets Prepared From Pooled Buffy Coat Post-transfusion Increment and “In Vitro Bleeding Time” Using the Thrombostat 4000/2 Claes F. Hégman, Lars Eriksson, J6rgen Kristensen Platelet Concentrates From Buffy Coats: Improved Conditions for Preparation and Evaluation in Routine Clinical Use P. Rebulla, F. Bertolini, L. Porretti, F.M arangoni, C. Smacchia, M. Marconi, D. Riccardi, V. Sirelson, M. Pappalettera, G. Sirchia Transfusion Transmitted Bacterial Infection (TTBI) Claes F. Hégman, Jian Gong, Lars Eriksson, Anna Hambraeus, Caroline S. Johansson First Results Obtained in France With the Latest Model of the Fresenius Cell Separator: AS104 C. Coffe, Y. Couteret, M. Devillers, T. Fest, P. Hervé, Y. Kieffer, B. Lamy, M. Masse, P. Morel, F. Pouthier-Stein, E. Racadot Optimization of Citrate Use in Platelet Collection P. Farrokhi Some Principles of Blood Stem Cell Transplantation Martin Korbling Il Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation for Breast Cancer Patients With Bone Marrow Metastases Using GM-CSF Priming Jeane P. Hester, Ralph O. Wallerstein Experiments on Enrichment of Peripheral Blood Progenitor Cells in an Electric Field Reinhold Eckstein, Johannes Giirtler, Nimrod Schwella, Thomas Zeiler, Volker Weisbach, Jiirgen Zingsem Selective Enrichment of Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells From Peripheral Blood. . Jiirgen Zingsem, Thomas Zeiler, Robert Zimmermann, Nimrod Schwella, Volker Weisbach, Wolfgang Siegert, Reinhold Eckstein Introduction and Analysis of the European wrod for Haemapheresis Questionnaire E. Angela Robinson Routine Quality Assurance Requirements for Apheresed Platelets Claes F. H6gman Initial Validation and Quality Control of Platelet Concentrates Prepared by Apheresis Scott Murphy Quality Assurance in Hemapheresis Granulocyte Transfusions: Current Need and Quality Assurance Jeane P. Hester Quality Control in Stem Cell Processing for Autotransplantation Martin Korbling, Christina Branham Improvement of Separation Efficiency and Concentrate Purity of the Fresenius Cell Separator AS 104: Results of a Multicenter Study Norbert Miiller, Volker Kretschmer, Erhard Godehardt, Helmut Borberg, Hans-Jiirgen Neumann, Haemapheresis Scientific Workshop Group of DGTI Specific Immunotherapy in Systemic Vasculitis .... C. M. Lockwood Multicenter Study of Standardization of Cell Counting Erhard Godehardt, Volker Kretschmer, Birgit Krampitz, Josef Kunert, H.-]. Neumann, Haemapheresis Scientific Workshop Group of DGTI INTERNATIONAL FORUM Apheresis Activities in The Netherlands Louis Kater, Cees Th. Smit Sibinga NEW PATENTS UPCOMING EVENTS Vol. 14 No. 2 Editorial Gail A. Rock SPECIAL REPORT Plasma Exchange: A Potential Role in Promyelocytic Leukemia— Disseminated Intravascular Coagulopathy Jeane P. Hester INVITED REPORT Neocyte Transfusion: A Current Perspective Antonio Ferndndez Montoya HEMAPHERESIS LISTENING POST Hemapheresis Practitioners Offered Professional Certification CURRENT TRENDS: EVOLVING CONCEPTS IN TRANSFUSION MEDICINE Bacterial Contamination of Platelets Kenneth C. Anderson INTERNATIONAL FORUM Donor Hemapheresis in France at the Start of 1992 C. Coffe, F. Norol NOTICE TO REVIEWERS OF MANUSCRIPTS TO OUR READERS SUBMITTED PAPERS HIV-2 Infection in High-risk Individuals in Spain V. Soriano, M. Leal, J. Ferndndez, J. Tor, I. Aguado, F. Valls, A. Rivero, X. Balanz6, ]. A. Pineda, ]. Gonzdlez-Lahoz Plasma Exchange, but not Extracorporal Recirculation nor Removal of White Blood Cells, Depresses Plasma Levels of IL-1 During Severe Gram-negative Septicemia Ola Rokke, Seljelid Rolf, Arthur Revhaug, Ole Petter Rekvig Immunoglobulin Therapy for HLA-related Recurrent Fetal Loss Salah A. Moghraby, Abdul Karim Al-Momen, Mohammed O. Gad-El-Rab, Abdul Galil M. Abdel-Gader, Abdulaziz Al-Meshari Platelet Storage Lesions: Analysis of Platelet Membrane Glycoproteins and Platelet-derived Microparticles by Fluorescence-activated Flow Cytometry Riidiger E. Scharf, Peter Hanfland Preparation of Random Donor Leukocyte-poor Platelets by Cytapheresis H. P. Olthuis, S. Stienstra, C. E. N. M. Puylaert, C. M. Verhagen, B. M. A. M. Bar Membranes and Polymer Structures— Biocompatibility Aspects with Respect to Production Limits 199 Wolfgang Ansorge, Ernst Spindler, Jérg Vienken, Ulrich Baurmeister Comparison of Four Filters for Leukocyte Depletion of Single Donor Plateletapheresis Products Kees Sintnicolaas, Wim L. J. van Putten NEW PATENTS UPCOMING EVENTS Vol. 14 No. 3 HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA CONTENTS Editorial Gail A. Rock Theme Editorial: Perspectives for Apheresis in Hypercholesterolaemia Peter Jacobs, David Marais Dyslipoproteinaemia: an Overview with Special Reference to Familial Hypercholesterolaemia A. D. Marais, G. A. Coetzee, D. R. van der Westhuyzen Plasma Exchange for Homozygous Familial Hypercholesterolaemia: the Cape Town Experience A. David Marais, Lucille Wood, Jean C. Firth, Jane M. Hall, Peter Jacobs LDL-apheresis: Clinical Experience and Indications in the Treatment of Severe Hypercholesterolemia ]. Thiery, D. Seidel Immunoadsorption and Dextran Sulfate Cellulose LDL-apheresis for Severe Hypercholesterolemia: the Rogosin Institute Experience 1982-1992 Bruce R. Gordon, Stuart D. Saal Role of LDL Apheresis in the Management of Hypercholesterolaemia Yuri Kitano, Gilbert R. Thompson INTERNATIONAL FORUM 1991 Registry of the French Society of Hemapheresis (SFH): Preliminary Results for the First Year of the On-line Computer Access File ]. M. Korach, A. Bussel, D. Annane, Ph. Gajdos, The Registry Study Group HEMAPHERESIS LISTENING POST The Problem of Under Utilization of Therapeutic Hemapheresis David Ciavarella, David Wuest VI CURRENT TRENDS: EVOLVING CONCEPTS IN TRANSFUSION MEDICINE The Need for Standardization of Cryoprecipitate-derived Fibrin Adhesive Patricia T. Pisciotto, Kenneth C. Anderson, Lawrence T. Goodnough, Sandford R. Kurtz, Thomas A. Lane, Merlin H. Sayers, Leslie E. Silberstein BRIEF LABORATORY AND CLINICAL OBSERVATIONS: Introduction EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR HEMAPHERESIS: REPORT Business Report on Activities of the ESFH prior to the 9th Scientific Meeting in Aberdeen (September 1993) U. E. Nydegger INVITED REPORTS In Utero Fetal Liver Cell Transplantation in the Treatment of Immunodeficient or Thalassemic Human Fetuses ].-L. Touraine Clinical Assessment of Nafamstat Mesilate (FUT-—175): a New Anticoagulant for Immunoadsorption using Membrane Plasmapheresis (IAP) Shinichi Hosokawa, Osamu Yoshida SUBMITTED PAPERS Costing Complexities in Mixed Apheresis P. M. Trenchard Erythrocytapheresis as a Method for Auto-transfusion. A Case Study in a Patient with Vel-antibodies ]. Ph. H. B. Sybesma, W. J. ]. van Dongen Anti-HCV and Anti-HDV Antibodies in Blood Donors and Selected Risk Groups Milan Radovié, Jovan Taseski UPCOMING EVENTS Vol. 14 No. 4 MASSIVE TRANSFUSION CONTENTS Editorial Gail A. Rock Theme Editorial: Massive Transfusion David A. Ciavarella Defining the Low Limit of Hematocrit for Surgical Patients Kinichi Shibutani, Elizabeth A. M. Frost Transfusion Support in Liver Transplantation Darrell J. Triulzi, Franklin A. Bontempo, Joseph E. Kiss, Alan Winkelstein Massive Blood Transfusion: The Blood Bank Perspective Barry Wenz Vil INTERNATIONAL FORUM GLH— ELatiMnoamAeric an Group of Hemapheresis L. N. Szterling HEMAPHERESIS LISTENING POST Standardization of Plateletpheresis Products David A. Ciavarella The Growing Practice of ‘Splitting’ Double-dose Apheresis Platelet Products . Frederick B. Axelrod BRIEF LABORATORY AND CLINICAL OBSERVATIONS Plasma Exchange, Tryptophan and Protein A Columns Adsorption in the Treatment of a Severe Myasthenia Gravis Patient G. Avanzi, F. Cepparone, R. Lombardo, G. Di Pietro, G. Marconi INVITED REPORT Clinical Application of Functional Assays for Assessing the Red Cell Antibody Activity Barbara Zupariska SUBMITTED PAPERS Successful Treatment of HIV-related Vasculitis with Peripheral Neuropathy with Short-term Steroids Followed by the Association of Zidovudine and Plasmapheresis P. Cohen, L. Guillevin, M. Gayraud, F. Lhote, B. Jarrousse, A. Leon, R. Gherardi Viability of Platelets Collected by Apheresis Versus the Platelet- rich Plasma Technique: a Direct Comparison René A. de Vries, Marcel de Bruin, Jo ]. M.M arx, Herman Ch. Hart, Albert Van de Wiel Separation of Buffy Coat using the Top and Bottom Drainage System: Reduction of Red Blood Cell Loss L. Muylle, D. Eerens, B. Van Breedam Transfusion Reaction Caused by Anti-P1 Antibody Gabriella Girelli, Simonetta Pupella, Maria Paola Perrone, Maria Screnci Components Prepared from Blood Collected into Dextrose-free Anticoagulant. In Vitro Properties of Platelets Suspended in Plasma and in Dextrose-free Synthetic Medium A. Farrugia, P. Dennington, S. Douglas, K. Karabagias, A. Kleinig A Possible Escape Phenomenon of Lipoprotein(a) in Sustained Plasma Exchange Mansoor Husain, John J. Freedman, Robert A. Hegele Treatment of Homozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia by Plasma Exchange and LDL-apheresis ]. B. Palcoux, M. Meyer, P. Jouanel, A. Tridon, P. Vanlieferinghen, H. Carla, G. Malpuech NEW PATENTS UPCOMING EVENTS Author Index Abdel-Gader, A. G. M., 183 Guillevin, L., 383 Murphy, S., 89 Aguado, I., 167 Giirtler, J., 71 Muylle, L., 399 Al-Meshari, A., 183 Al-Momen, A. K., 183 Hall, J. M., 239 Neumann, H.-J., 105, 119 Anderson, K. C., 159, 291 Hambraeus, A., 47 Norol, F., 163 Annane, D., 281 Hanfland, P., 189 Nydegger, U. E., 297 Ansorge, W., 199 Hart, H. Ch., 391 Avanzi, G., 17, 369 Haupt, W. F., 9, 13 Olthuis, H. P., 195 Axelrod, F. B., 364 Hegele, R. A. 417 Hervé, P., 51 Palcoux, J. B., 423 Balanz6, X., 167 Hester, J. P., 65, 95, 135 Pappalettera, M., 41 Bar, B. M. A. M., 195 Heymanns, J., 27 Perrone, M. P., 405 Baurmeister, U., 199 Hodgman, C. F., 35, 47, 85 Pfliiger, K-H., 27 Bertolini, F., 41 Hosokawa, S., 305 Pineda, J. A., 167 Bontempo, F. A., 345 Hughes, R. A. C., 3 Pisciotto, P. T., 291 Borberg, H., 9, 13, 105 Husain, M., 417 Porretti, L., 41 Branham, C., 101 Huss, B., 27 Pouthier-Stein, F., 51 de Bruin, M., 391 Pupella, S., 405 Bussel, A., 281 Jacobs, P., 219, 239 van Putten, W. L. J., 211 Jarrousse, B., 383 Puylaert, C. E. N. M., 195 Carla, H., 423 Jiménez, C., 9 Cepparone, F., 369 Jiménez-Klingberg, C., 13 Racadot, E., 51 Ciavarella, D. A., 287, 331,363 Johansson, C. S., 47 Radovicé, M., 323 Coetzee, G. A., 223 Jouanel, P., 423 Rebulla, P., 41 Coffe, C., 51, 163 Rekvig, O. P., 173 Cohen, P., 383 Karabagias, K., 409 Revhaug, A., 173 Couteret, Y., 51 Kater, L., 127 Riccardi, D., 41 Kieffer, Y., 51 Rivero, A., 167 Dennington, P., 409 Kiss, J. E., 345 Robinson, E. A., 79 Devillers, M., 51 Kitano, Y., 269 Rock, G. A., 1, 133, 217, 329 Dietrich, G., 27 Kleinig, A., 409 Rokke, O., 173 Di Pietro, G., 369 Korach, J. M., 281 Rolf, S., 173 van Dongen, W. J. J., 319 Korbling, M., 61, 101 Rosenow, F., 9, 13 Douglas, S., 409 Krampitz, B., 119 Kretschmer, V., 27, 105, 119 Saal, S. D., 261 Eckstein, R., 71, 75 Kristensen, J., 35 Sayers, M. H., 291 Eerens, D., 399 Kunert, J., 119 Scharf, R. E., 189 Eriksson, L., 35, 47 Kurtz, S. R., 291 Schwella, N., 71, 75 Screnci, M., 405 Farrokhi, P., 57 Lamy, B., 51 Seidel, D., 249 Farrugia, A., 409 Lane, T. A., 291 Shibutani, K., 335 Fernandez, J., 167 Leal, M., 167 Siegert, W., 75 Fest, T., 51 Leon, A., 383 Silberstein, L. E., 291 Firth, J. C., 239 Lhote, F., 383 Sintnicolaas, K., 211 Freedman, J. J., 417 Lockwood, C. M., 115 Sirchia, G., 41 Frost, E. A. M., 335 Lombardo, R., 369 Sirelson, V., 41 Smacchia, C., 41 Gad-El-Rab, M. O., 183 Malpuech, G., 423 Smit Sibinga, C. Th., 127 Gajdos, Ph., 281 Marais, A. D., 219, 223, 239 Soriano, V., 167 Gayraud, M., 383 Marangoni, F., 41 Spindler, E., 199 Gherardi, R., 383 Marconi, G., 17, 369 Stienstra, S., 195 Gibberd, F. B., 23 Marconi, M., 41 Sybesma, J. Ph. H. B., 319 Girelli, G., 405 Marx, J. J. M., 391 Szterling, L. N., 361 Godehardt, E., 105, 119 Masse, M., 51 Gong, J., 47 Meyer, M., 423 Taseski, J., 323 Gonz4lez-Lahoz, J., 167 Moghraby, S. A., 183 Thiery, J., 249 Goodnough, L. T., 291 Montoya, A. F., 147 Thompson, G. R., 269 Gordon, B. R., 261 Morel, P., 51 Tor, J., 167 Grieb, P., 9, 13 Miller, N., 105 Touraine, J.-L., 299 IX Trenchard, P. M., 309 Vienken, J., 199 Wuest, D., 287 Tridon, A., 423 de Vries, R. A., 391 Triulzi, D. J., 345 Yoshida, O., 305 Wallerstein, R. O., 65 Valls, F., 167 Weisbach, V., 71, 75 Vanlieferinghen, P., 423 Wenz, B., 353 Zeiler, T., 71, 75 Van Breedam, B., 399 Winkelstein, A., 345 Zimmermann, R., 75 Van de Wiel, A., 391 Wood, L., 239 Zingsem, J., 71, 75 Verhagen, C. 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