Promacta tended to boost platelet counts in patients with low-risk MDS, and helped those patients be independent of transfusions, too. Promacta (eltrombopag) improved platelet counts in patients with ...
A group of 12 thrombocytopenic patients, ranging in age from two to fourteen years, were studied. The thrombocytopenia was due to diverse conditions (Table 1). The platelet count ranged from 3000 to ...
Verax Biomedical, a young medical device company that makes a rapid test that screens for bacterial contamination in blood platelets, announced it has gained federal clearance to expand the use of its ...
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 ...
LAKE ZURICH, Ill. & WORCESTER, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A $30 test that takes fewer than 30 minutes to perform can prevent potentially deadly transfusions of bacterial contamination in platelets, ...
DURING studies of blood viscosity with a method designed to determine resistance to flow in very small blood vessels, it was unexpectedly found that very high pressures became necessary to force blood ...
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 ...
Turbulence is a critical physical factor that promotes the large-scale production of functional platelets from human induced pluripotent stem cells, researchers reportl. Exposure to turbulent energy ...