**Meet the editors**

Prof. Dr. Yusuf Tutar is currently working at the University of Health Sciences, Mekteb-i Tıbbiye-i Şahane, Istanbul, Turkey. He obtained his MSc and PhD degrees from the Oregon State University and Texas Tech University, respectively. He pursued his postdoctoral studies from the Rutgers University Medical School and National Institutes of Health (NIH/NIDDK), USA. His research

mainly focuses on biochemistry, biophysics, genetics, and molecular biology with a specialization in the fields of prion, drug design, cancer, protein structure and function, protein folding, microRNAs, pseudogenes, molecular cancer, proteomics, genomics, and protein expression and characterization by the spectroscopic and calorimetric methods.

Dr. Lütfi Tutar is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Art and Sciences, Ahi Evran University, Kırşehir, Turkey. His interdisciplinary research focuses on bioinformatics analysis of high-throughput data, microRNAs, small RNAs, and heat-shock proteins (HSPs) in human diseases and other multicellular organisms.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Section 1 Plasma for Diagnostics 1**

**Section 2 Plasma in Clinical Practice 19**

Chapter 1 **Plasma for Laboratory Diagnostics 3**

Ramune Sepetiene, Raminta Sidlauskiene and Vaiva Patamsyte

Marina Viegas Moura Rezende Ribeiro, Eurica Adélia Nogueira

Mikel Sánchez, Diego Delgado, Ane Garate, Pello Sánchez, Jaime Oraa, Ane Miren Bilbao, Jorge Guadilla, Beatriz Aizpurua, Nicolás

Chapter 3 **PRP Injections in Orthopaedic Surgery: Why, When and How to Use PRP Dynamic Liquid Scaffold Injections in**

Jean J. Filipov, Borelli K. Zlatkov and Emil P. Dimitrov

Jesús Alcaraz Rubio and Juana María Sánchez López

Chapter 2 **The Use of Platelet-Rich Plasma in Dry Eye Disease 21**

Ribeiro and Luiz Feliciano Ribeiro

Fiz, Juan Azofra and Sabino Padilla

Chapter 5 **Clinical Applications of Plasma Growth Factors 83**

Chapter 4 **Plasma Exchange in Clinical Practice 59**

**Section 3 Plasma Homonym in Medicine 99**

Chapter 6 **Microplasma Drug Delivery 101**

Kazuo Shimizu and Jaroslav Krištof

**Orthopaedic Surgery 37**
