"Bloodletting" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Puncture of a vein to draw blood for therapeutic purposes. Bloodletting therapy has been used in Talmudic and Indian medicine since the medieval time, and was still practiced widely in the 18th and 19th centuries. Its modern counterpart is PHLEBOTOMY.
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D001815
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E02.800.558.500
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| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Bloodletting" by people in Profiles.
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Efficacy and safety of ruxolitinib after and versus interferon use in the RESPONSE studies. Ann Hematol. 2018 Apr; 97(4):617-627.
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Leeches: controlled trial in venous compromised rat epigastric flaps. Br J Plast Surg. 1992 Apr; 45(3):235-8.
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ARIC hemostasis study--I. Development of a blood collection and processing system suitable for multicenter hemostatic studies. Thromb Haemost. 1989 Feb 28; 61(1):15-9.
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Development and partial metabolic characterization of a dietary cholesterol-resistant colony of rabbits. J Lipid Res. 1989 Feb; 30(2):263-73.
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Minimum discard volume from arterial catheters to obtain coagulation studies free of heparin effect. Heart Lung. 1987 Nov; 16(6 Pt 1):699-705.
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Central venous pressure and plasma arginine vasopressin in man during water immersion combined with changes in blood volume. Eur J Appl Physiol Occup Physiol. 1986; 54(6):608-16.
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Harvest of young red cells on an automated cell separator. Transfusion. 1984 Jul-Aug; 24(4):330-2.
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Acute pulmonary edema. Cardiol Clin. 1984 May; 2(2):183-200.