Publisher's Synopsis
This section of the "Soviet Medical Reviews" series focuses on key developments in Soviet fundamental and applied haematological research. The series is intended to make recent Soviet medical advances available to Western scientists who do not read Russian.;In this volume the contributors describe: the techniques of metabolic amputation based on haemosorption and plasmasorption and of extracorporeal aggregate state of blood regulation based on gravitational cytapheresis and plasmapheresis; the use of plasmapheresis in treating hypertension and elevated plasma LDL and the chronic use of heparin-sepharose sorbent in plasmapheresis in the treatment of patients with familial hypercholesterolaemia; the underlying mechanisms of the effects of ERASB surgery and the formation of the pathological system responsible for disrupting normal ASB regulation; and the use of live isolated porcine hepatocytes in plasmapheresis involving complete mass exchange of the patient's plasma.
