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Case Reports
. 2016 Dec 1;33(4):356-358.
doi: 10.4274/tjh.2016.0056. Epub 2016 Oct 18.

Therapeutic Plasma Exchange Ameliorates Incompatible Crossmatches

Mehmet Özen  1 , Sinan Erkul, Gülen Sezer Alptekin Erkul, Özlem Genç, Engin Akgül, Ahmet Hakan Vural
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Therapeutic Plasma Exchange Ameliorates Incompatible Crossmatches

Mehmet Özen et al. Turk J Haematol. .
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Figure 1. A) Crossmatch before therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE), B) direct Coombs test before TPE, C) crossmatch after one TPE, D) crossmatch after two TPEs. All tests were performed with DG gel cards (Grifols) and used the Wadiana automated blood bank (Grifols, SantCugat del Valles, Barcelona, Spain).
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