Factors affecting transfusion of fresh frozen plasma, platelets, and red blood cells during elective coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
Important study on factors influencing requirements on blood components during coronary artery bypass graft surgery. More than 80 preop. multidimensional risk variables were evaluated. Effective predictors of blood need were […]
Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia.
An important article for clinicians to remind them of the importance of neonatal immune thrombocytopenia even when the platelet specific antibodies cannot be detected. – Volker Kretschmer
Transfusion-related acute lung injury during plasma exchange: Suspecting the unsuspected.
This article helps to focus attention on the risk of TRALI although it doesn’t really describe anything new. One should discuss renouncement of plasma from female multipara donors at least […]
Effective hemostasis with rFVIIa treatment in two patients with severe thrombocytopenia and life-threatening hemorrhage.
This article reports 2 patients with severe thrombocytopenia and severe hemorrhage which did not respond to standard therapy and platelet transfusion, but responded quickly to administration of a single dose […]