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Refractoriness to platelet transfusion
Current Opinion in Hematology, 2002This review discusses the causes of refractoriness to platelet transfusions and presents three options for its management. Platelet refractoriness is a complication of platelet transfusion that affects variable proportions of patients, mostly depending on their diagnosis, previous immunologic stimuli, and type of blood products used for transfusion.
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Status of Platelet Collection and Platelet Transfusion
Therapeutic Apheresis, 2001Abstract: Platelet product derived from single donor plateletpheresis is required to reduce the risks of adverse reactions by blood transfusion. The objectives of this study are to evaluate the status of platelet collection and its efficacy by various kinds of plateletpheresis equipment and to assess the achievement of platelet transfusion by platelet ...
Susumu Omokawa +9 more
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2018
A 55-year-old man with a history of alcohol abuse and liver cirrhosis presents to the emergency department with upper gastrointestinal bleeding and symptomatic anemia related to acute blood loss (hemoglobin [Hgb] level 7.1 g/dL). A type and screen sample (ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid [EDTA] anticoagulant) along with an order for two units of red ...
Mark T. Friedman +4 more
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A 55-year-old man with a history of alcohol abuse and liver cirrhosis presents to the emergency department with upper gastrointestinal bleeding and symptomatic anemia related to acute blood loss (hemoglobin [Hgb] level 7.1 g/dL). A type and screen sample (ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid [EDTA] anticoagulant) along with an order for two units of red ...
Mark T. Friedman +4 more
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Guidelines for Platelet Transfusion
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1988Thirty years ago platelet transfusions were not available. Thrombocytopenic bleeding led to morbidity and mortality in patients with aplastic anemia and hematologic malignancies. Now, platelet transfusions generally are as available as any physician wishes. This ready availability and the development of potent antibiotics have allowed hematologists and
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Platelet dose for prophylactic platelet transfusions
Expert Review of Hematology, 2010Although guidelines exist to deal with some aspects of platelet transfusion practice, many important clinical issues have not been addressed in large randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Slichter et al. conducted a RCT of prophylactic platelet transfusions to determine the effects of the dose of platelets on clinical signs of bleeding, the use of ...
Joan Cid, Miguel Lozano
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Medical Clinics of North America, 1977
Platelet transfusions are of unquestionably proven benefit for the correction of thrombocytopenia or functional platelet disorders, and they have allowed for more intensive antineoplastic therapy. With the advent of blood component therapy most modern blood banks now have the capabilities for supplying at least limited quantities of platelets ...
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Platelet transfusions are of unquestionably proven benefit for the correction of thrombocytopenia or functional platelet disorders, and they have allowed for more intensive antineoplastic therapy. With the advent of blood component therapy most modern blood banks now have the capabilities for supplying at least limited quantities of platelets ...
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Platelets—to transfuse or not to transfuse
The Lancet, 2012Neil Blumberg +3 more
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Trigger for Platelet Transfusion
Vox Sanguinis, 2000Background and Objectives:The terms ‘platelet transfusion trigger’ are used in the scientific literature to indicate a value of the platelet count above which prophylactic platelet transfusion is usually not indicated. Most clinicians share the currently prevalent consensus published in several guidelines that a platelet transfusion trigger of 10,000 ...
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