Use of polyethylene glycol for performing autologous adsorptions

BACKGROUND: Our reference adsorption procedure is to autoadsorb serum with ZZAP‐pretreated patients’ red cells (RBCs), although it is time‐consuming. The aim of this study was to evaluate the use of polyethylene glycol (PEG) for performing autologous adsorption procedures without pretreatment of patients’ RBCs.

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