Check for updatesReceived:29 November 2022 Revised:25 January 2023Accepted:27 January 2023D0L10.1002/jea22043JournalCr64S别WILEYGuidelines on the Use of Therapeutic Apheresis in ClinicalPractice-Evidence-Based Approach from the WritingCommittee of the American Society for Apheresis:The Ninth Special IssueLaura Connelly-Smith Caroline R.Alquist2 Nicole A.Aqui3Jan C.Hofmann4 Reinhard Klingels.Oluwatoyosi A.Onwuemene?Christopher J.Patriquins Huy P.Pham Amber P.Sanchez 10Jennifer Schneiderman11 Volker Witt12 Nicole D.Zantek13Nancy M.Dunbar14Department of Medicine,University of Washington Medical Center&Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center,Seattle,Washington,USAHoxworth Blood Center,University of Cincinnati,Cincinnati,Ohio,USASDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine,Perelman School of Medicine,University of Pennsylvania,Philadelphia,Pennsylvania,USADepartment of Laboratory Medicine,University of California San Francisco School of Medicine,San Francisco,Califomnia,USA5Apheresis Research Institute,Cologne,GermanyFirst Department of Internal Medicine,University of Mainz,Mainz,GermanyDivision of Hematology,Department of Medicine,Duke University Medical Center,Durham,North Carolina,USADivision of Medical Oncology and Hematology,University of Toronto,Toronto,Ontario,CanadaSeattle Apheresis Collection Center,National Marrow Donor Program,Seattle,Washington,USADivision of Nephrology and Hypertension,Department of Medicine,University of Califomia an Diego,San Diego,Califomia,USADepartment of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology/Neurooncology/Stem Cell Transplant,Ann&Robert H.Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago,Northwestern University,Chicago,Illinois,USADepartment for Pediatrics,St.Anna Kinderspital,Medical University of Vienna,Via,AustriaDepartment of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology,University of Minnesota,Minneapolis,Minnesota,USADepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine,Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center,Lebanon,New Hampshire,USACorrespondenceNancy M.Dunbar,Dartmouth-HitchcockAbstractMedical Center,Lebanon,NH 03756,The American Society for Apheresis (ASFA)Journal of Clinical ApheresisUSA.(JCA)Special Issue Writing Committee is charged with reviewing,updating,Email:nancy.m.dunbar@hitchcock.organd categorizing indications for the evidence-based use of therapeutic aphere-sis(TA)in human disease.In the Ninth Edition,the JCA Special Issue WritingCommittee has incorporated systematic review and evidence-based approachesin the grading of evidence and categorization of apheresis indications to makerecommendations on the use of apheresis in a wide variety of diseases and con-ditions.This edition has largely maintained the general layout and concept of afact sheet introduced in the Fourth Edition (2007).Each fact sheet succinctlysummarizes the evidence for the use of TA in a specific disease or medical con-dition.The Ninth Edition of the JCA Special Issue comprises 91 fact sheets andJ Clin Aphen2023:38:77-278wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/jca2023 Wiley Periodicals