Cryopreserved platelets cost more and are linked to worse bleeding and clinical outcomes than liquid-stored platelets in a ...

Mitchell Van Dorn only made it to his fifth birthday before cancer took him in 1995. His whole life, Mitchell received regular infusions of blood platelets, which form clots to stop bleeding. Two ...

Hospitals and blood banks are adopting new measures to improve the safety of donated platelets—the tiny cells that make blood clot and heal injuries but that also present the No. 1 infection risk in ...

FORT BRAGG, N.C. - Al Whitney is a true American hero. For over half a century, he has been a constant blood donor to the Armed Services Blood Program and other donor locations throughout the United ...

Someone in the United States needs platelets every 15 seconds, according to the American Red Cross, and you have those in your body right now. If you’re looking for an easy way to help another person, ...

BLOOD DONATION and management is soon going to witness a technological revolution. Region's first state-of-the art apheresis unit will be set up at the Allahabad Medical Association's (AMA) blood bank ...

Every Wednesday at 7 a.m., like clockwork, Mike Adams makes a trip to The Blood Center in Metairie, where he spends about an hour and a half of his day donating lifesaving blood products. He's been ...

THE hemorrhagic tendency of thrombocytopenic animals can be controlled temporarily by transfusions of fresh platelet concentrates. 1,2 The clinical value of platelet transfusions has previously been ...

The hemostatic system is maintained by a delicate balance of pro- and anticoagulant factors, allowing for physiologic response to hemorrhage while simultaneously avoiding development of pathologic ...

We report the occurrence of sepsis due to infection with Salmonella enterica serotype enteritidis infection in two patients, one of whom died. The infection originated in a single platelet donation ...