Preparation and usefulness of frozen blood.
Red blood cell freezing is now practiced widely. Advantages of deglycerolized red cells over whole blood or packed cells include indefinite preservation, leukocyte destruction and removal, and plasma removal. Deglycerolized red cells are a purer blood component than whole blood or conventional red cells.
D001793:Blood Preservation / Q000379:methods*; D001803:Blood Transfusion; D004912:Erythrocytes; D005615:Freezing; D006801:Humans; D007962:Leukocytes; D013997:Time Factors