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.
Plasmapheresis (from the Greek ÏÎ»Î¬ÏÎ¼Î±âplasma, something molded, and á¼ÏÎ±Î¯ÏÎµÏÎ¹Ïâaphairesis, taking away) is the removal, treatment, and return of (components of) blood plasma from blood circulation.It is thus an extracorporeal therapy (a medical procedure performed outside the body).uring plasmapheresis, blood (which consists of blood cells and a clear liquid called plasma) is initially taken out of the body through a needle or previously implanted catheter. Plasma is then removed from the blood by a cell separator.