PMID- 22276991 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20120731 LR - 20120320 IS - 1525-139X (Electronic) IS - 0894-0959 (Linking) VI - 25 IP - 2 DP - 2012 Mar-Apr TI - Blood banking and transfusion medicine for the nephrologist. PG - 114-8 LID - 10.1111/j.1525-139X.2011.01021.x [doi] AB - Therapeutic Apheresis Medicine Services work closely with Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine Services (BBTMS). The BBTMS performs patient testing and provides blood components for patients undergoing therapeutic apheresis procedures. This article will provide an overview of blood component descriptions, patient testing, and blood component options and preparations for therapeutic apheresis procedures. CI - (c) 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. FAU - Wehrli, Gay AU - Wehrli G AD - Department of Pathology, Blood Bank and Transfusion Medicine Services, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908-0286, USA. gwmd@virginia.edu LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Review DEP - 20120125 PL - United States TA - Semin Dial JT - Seminars in dialysis JID - 8911629 SB - IM MH - Blood Banks/*organization & administration MH - Blood Component Removal/*methods/statistics & numerical data MH - Blood Component Transfusion/*methods/statistics & numerical data MH - Blood Transfusion/methods/statistics & numerical data MH - Female MH - Humans MH - Interprofessional Relations MH - Male MH - Nephrology/*methods MH - Patient Care Team/organization & administration MH - Quality Improvement MH - Risk Assessment MH - Transplantation, Homologous MH - Treatment Outcome EDAT- 2012/01/27 06:00 MHDA- 2012/08/01 06:00 CRDT- 2012/01/27 06:00 PHST- 2012/01/27 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2012/01/27 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2012/08/01 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1111/j.1525-139X.2011.01021.x [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Semin Dial. 2012 Mar-Apr;25(2):114-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1525-139X.2011.01021.x. Epub 2012 Jan 25.