This was a prospective randomized control study of 43 platelet transfusions given to newborns. Transfusions were randomized to run over either 30 min or 2 h. Platelet counts taken 30 min and 6 h after ...

Promacta tended to boost platelet counts in patients with low-risk MDS, and helped those patients be independent of transfusions, too. Promacta (eltrombopag) improved platelet counts in patients with ...

Researchers may be one step closer to improving treatments for bleeding disorders. They have devised a way to maximize the numbers and function of clot-forming blood cells from mice. Researchers may ...

A group of 12 thrombocytopenic patients, ranging in age from two to fourteen years, were studied. The thrombocytopenia was due to diverse conditions (Table 1). The platelet count ranged from 3000 to ...

A new guideline for administering platelet transfusions to adult patients emphasizes judicious use of the procedure to reduce patient risk and conserve resources, according to an article published ...

DURING studies of blood viscosity with a method designed to determine resistance to flow in very small blood vessels, it was unexpectedly found that very high pressures became necessary to force blood ...

Platelet transfusions play a major role in the management of thrombocytopenia in hematological and oncologic patients. However, a proportion of these patients become refractory to the transfusion of ...

Turbulence is a critical physical factor that promotes the large-scale production of functional platelets from human induced pluripotent stem cells, researchers reportl. Exposure to turbulent energy ...

Platelet transfusion thresholds in according bleeding risk and the presence of bleeding. WHO = World Health Organization. “In practice, we see all too often [that] prophylactic transfusion of ...

The ABO blood group system was discovered over a hundred years ago by Karl Landsteiner, a discovery that would ultimately make modern transfusion and transplantation therapies possible. It is one mark ...