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
AABB Conference on Secondary Bacterial Screening of Platelets In a one-day public conference held in July 2012, members from AABB and others in the transfusion medicine community discussed… August 24, 2012
Studies suggest that platelet development continues in the bloodstream Researchers from the University of Utah presented at the International Congress of the International Society of Blood Transfusion that platelet… August 6, 2012
VIDEO: PLADO Trial Secondary Analyses on Platelet Transfusion Today we’ll be discussing the PLADO Trial Secondary Analyses. The Prophylactic Platelet Dose Trial or PLADO study was a large,… July 24, 2012
Synthetic Platelets Offer Potential Benefits for Platelet-Associated Disorders Professor Nishit Doshi and colleagues from the University of California, Santa Barbara, the Scripps Research Institute, and Sanford-Burnham Medical Research… July 20, 2012
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