Whirling Platelets Away for Transfusion

The new paradigm for transfusion of platelets.

RK We administer platelets to people with qualitative or quantitative problems with their platelets for 2 main reasons: to prevent or reduce the risk of bleeding, or to treat active bleeding. The majority of prophylactic platelet transfusions are administered to patients who have low platelet counts due to treatment with myeloablative therapies such as chemotherapy. Other patients need prophyla...

Laboratory evaluation of platelets for transfusion.

Platelets: Production, Function, Transfusion, and Storage

Still another attractive book attempting to describe the cause, course, and current treatment of diabetic retinopathy is now available. This particular volume represents papers presented at a Symposium held in 1972. Of course the thinking on the subject of diabetic retinopathy is in a rapidly changing phase, and therefore comments and discussion, even from serious-minded persons, are soon outda...

Transfusion of apheresis platelets and ABO groups.

Thrombopathic thrombocytopenia; successful transfusion of blood platelets.

T HE OPPORTUNITY presented itself recently for the study of a case of chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura characterized by the presence of unusually large agranular platelets. Several features indicated that the platelets were physiologically defective and led to the diagnosis of a thrombopathic or thrombasthenic type of thrombocytopenic purpura. When a blood transfusion from a polycyth...