(HealthDay News) — Autologous platelet transfusion 24 or 48 hours after ticagrelor-mediated platelet inhibition has minimal effect, while a small reversing effect is seen for transfusion after ...
OBJECTIVE: To determine the most effective, evidence-based approach to the use of platelet transfusions in patients with cancer. OUTCOMES: Outcomes of interest included prevention of morbidity and ...
THE variability in the natural history of both acquired and idiopathic aplastic anemia makes it difficult to evaluate the success of any specific program of therapy. With careful attention to ...
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 ...
The UAB Hospital’s Transfusion Services, or Blood Bank, is the largest of the clinical laboratories with 40+ employees working under Lakecia Watkins, laboratory supervisor. They staff the main ...
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 ...
Hospitals and blood centers are always trying to avoid shortages. Someone needs blood every two seconds, and less than 10% of ...
In their review article, Hunger and Mullighan (Oct. 15 issue) 1 report on the spectacular progress from 1968 through 2009 in survival among children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) (Figure 1 ...
A few years back, Howell teenager Jillian Vieira was getting off the school bus on a rainy day when she slipped and fell into the street. It didn't seem like a huge deal. Then she got home and noticed ...