Therapeutic effectiveness of frozen platelet concentrates for transfusion

Therapeutic effectiveness of frozen platelet concentrates for transfusion.

Six patients received platelet concentrate transfusions from their HLA-identical siblings. Platelet concentrates were administered either fresh, or after being frozen in 10% dimethylsulfoxide, at a slow controlled rate (1 degree C/min) or rapidly (approximately 8 degrees C/min) in the vapor-phase of a liquid nitrogen refrigerator. The median freeze-thaw loss was 13.5%. The mean 1-hr and 20-hr c...

Platelet concentrates: reducing the risk of transfusion-transmitted bacterial infections

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Comparative Study of Four Platelet-Rich Plasma Methods for Preparing Platelet Concentrates

Background: Platelet preparations have been used for a wide variety of clinical applications such as hemorrhage, tissue engineering and cellular therapy. Platelet concentrates can be prepared by the apheresis method or from the whole blood using the Buffy-coat or Platelet-rich plasma methods. The purpose of this study was to compare four variations of platelet-rich plasma method based on double...

PLATELET-RICH PLASMA FOR FROZEN SHOULDER

This was Presented in 5th International Congress of Iranian Iranian Society of Knee Surgery, Arthroscopy, and Sports Traumatology (ISKAST), 14-17 Feb 2018- Kish, Iran

The increased effectiveness of platelet concentrates prepared in acidified plasma.