Short-term femoral catheter insertion: a promising alternative to consistently allow long-term erythrocytapheresis therapy in children with sickle cell anemia.
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Abstract
Erythrocytapheresis procedures, increasingly used in the management of patients with severe complications of sickle cell disease, are limited by adequate venous access. We have successfully used short-term femoral catheter insertion, during a 6.5-year period for a total of 443 procedures, to perform long-term erythrocytapheresis in 18 consecutive children with sickle cell disease.
Medical subject headings
- Anemia, Sickle Cell
- Catheterization, Peripheral
- Cytapheresis
- Erythrocytes