Performance and safety of femoral central venous catheters in pediatric autologous peripheral blood stem cell collection.

Laura CoolingSandra HoffmannDawn WebbChisa YamadaRobertson DavenportSung Won Choi

Published in: Journal of clinical apheresis (2017)

Femoral CVC are safe and effective for A-HPCC in young pediatric patients. Femoral CVC performance was maintained over several days with few flow-related alarms when compared to thoracic CVCs.

Keyphrases

peripheral blood
stem cells
bone marrow
cell therapy