Around 44 percent of all Shiite mosques were established in the 1990s. Approximately 7 percent of mosques identified themselves as Shiite and 37 percent of those are in the West, especially California. Most Shiites at American mosques are South Asians, Arabs and Iranians.
plateletpheresis in Medicine. plateletpheresis plateÂ·letÂ·pheÂ·reÂ·sis (plÄt'lÄ­t-fÉ-rÄ'sÄ­s, -fÄr'É-) n. A process in which platelets are removed from donated blood and the remaining components are returned to the donor.
Photopheresis (ECP) is a type of medical therapy that can be used in treating patients with problems associated with cutaneous (skin) T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) such as mycosis fungoides (MF) or Sezary syndrome.