Hemotherapy

Hemotherapy ( ) or hemotherapeutics ( ) is the treatment of disease by the use of blood or blood products from blood donation (by others or for oneself).

It includes various types, such as:

• Blood transfusion
• Packed red blood cells transfusion
• Fresh frozen plasma transfusion
• Plasmapheresis of various kinds, including plasma exchange
• Autohemotherapy, with autologous blood that is usually modified in some way

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