They took a mulligan and mostly got it right … the issue of prophylactic platelet transfusion for patients receiving autologous stem cell transplantation
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Autologous platelet transfusion in patients receiving high-dose chemotherapy and circulating progenitor cell transplantation for stage II/III breast cancer.
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Concerns about the risk of transfusion therapy are driving towards new strategies which are designed to minimize exposure to allogeneic blood products. We aimed to find out whether it is possible to support the phase of thrombocytopenia following high-dose chemotherapy (HDC) and circulating progenitor cells (CPC) transplantation by autologous platelet concentrates (PC)....
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عنوان ژورنال: Transfusion
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0041-1132
DOI: 10.1111/trf.12821