Effect of the Leukostopยฎ filter on pulmo
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Shmuel Kivity; Chir Gazy; Nawaf Heno; Zvi Greif; Marcel Topilsky
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Article
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1999
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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This study evaluated the effect of the Leukostopเฎพ filter, a device which reduces the number of leukocytes in blood, on pulmonary function in 15 patients with thalassemia major. Spirometry and oxygen saturation were used to evaluate the influence of filtering the blood. The transfusions consisted of