VIDEO: Increasing Platelet Storage Duration Currently, apheresis platelets are stored at room temperature and have a shelf life of 5 days which makes them susceptible… January 30, 2014
Allogeneic Platelet Transfusions May Alleviate T-cell Mediated Immune Thrombocytopenia Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is an autoimmune disorder with a complex pathogenesis that appears to be caused by either platelet destruction… January 24, 2014
VIDEO: Platelet Additive Solution: The Next Generation of Platelet Storage PAS is a buffered salt solution that replaces a portion of the plasma used to store platelets. PAS products have… November 15, 2013
VIDEO: Randomized Trial of Prophylactic Platelet Transfusions A trial which randomized 600 haematological cancer patients to receive or not to receive prophylactic platelet transfusions showed that prophylactic… June 14, 2013
Weak HLA Antibody Levels Not Associated with Platelet Refractoriness A study published in the journal Blood suggests that low to moderate levels of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) antibodies are… April 26, 2013
Pathogen-Reduction May Help Prevent Alloimmune Platelet Refractoriness Researchers from the University of Washington and Puget Sound Blood Center have demonstrated that pathogen-reduction may be an effective method… January 4, 2013
Prophylactic Platelet Transfusion May Help Avert Bleeding Researchers from the United Kingdom and Australia have found that patients not receiving prophylactic platelet transfusions may be at higher… December 28, 2012
VIDEO: Therapeutic Platelet Transfusion for Patients with Hematological Malignancies In a trial conducted by German hematology and oncology researchers, and reported in The Lancet, therapeutic platelet transfusion may be… November 29, 2012
Increased Plasma and Platelet Transfusion Ratios Associated with Decreased Mortality A recently published prospective cohort study of ten level I trauma centers in the US suggests that increased ratios of… November 7, 2012
VIDEO: Platelet-Mediated Hemolytic Transfusion Reactions and Mitigation Strategies Platelet transfusion plays an important role in the treatment of hematologic cancers. Transfusion services do not always consider ABO donor-recipient plasma… October 15, 2012
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