Some Uses of the Continuous Flow Blood Separator in the Myeloproliferative Syndrome

A continuous flow blood separator was used for leucapheresis in two patients with chronic myeloid leukaemia, complicated by pregnancy and leukastasis respectively, and for thrombocytopheresis in a patient with megakaryocytic myelosis. The cases described, outline some of the clinical uses of this machine in the myeloproliferative syndrome.