Platelet storage and transfusions: new concerns associated with an old therapy.
Platelet transfusion has long been practiced with rudimentary knowledge about optimal storage conditions and their implications for efficacy and, particularly, safety. Recent concerns about complications such as inflammation, thrombosis and altered recipient immunity have been raised about platelet transfusion. This review will discuss recent important findings that have raised these issues about platelet transfusion associated morbidity, mortality and the possible role of platelet storage in these associations.
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester.
Julie
J
Sahler
Katie
K
Grimshaw
Sherry L
SL
Spinelli
Majed A
MA
Refaai
Richard P
RP
Phipps
Neil
N
Blumberg