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Also known as: white blood cell reduction apheresis.
Apheresis therapy is a medical procedure that involves removal of various components of blood to treat certain medical conditions. Leukapheresis involves removal of a patient’s white blood cells from the circulating blood. It’s often used as a treatment during leukemia if the blood has too many white blood cells.
A needle or an intravenous and catheter are used to draw blood from the patient. Then the blood is placed in a machine that separates the blood into its different components. The extra white blood cells are directed into a separate bag and are then discarded. The remainder of the blood is placed back into the patient’s body.
No special preparation is needed for leukapheresis.
Discomfort and lightheadedness are possible side effects of leukapheresis.
Reviewed by: Balagangadhar Totapally, MD
This page was last updated on: December 18, 2020 02:28 PM
The Helen & Jacob Shaham Cancer & Blood Disorders Institute is transforming care so that no child has to leave the state of Florida for leading-edge cancer treatment.
Chronic myelogenous leukemia is a rare cancer of the blood in children where over time, too many immature white blood cells form because of an abnormality in the normal maturation process of the cell.
Acute myeloid leukemia is a leukemia that starts in the bone marrow (the tissue inside the bone where blood is made) and results in the creation of immature white blood cells.
Therapeutic plasma exchange involves removing problematic plasma from the blood.