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Method Preserves WBCs and Allows Simplified Counting

Published in Blood Weekly, June 29th, 1998

American Red Cross researchers developed a method to prevent the deterioration of white cells in red cell samples for extended periods.

Kieuly Tran, American Red Cross, Jerome Holland Laboratory, and colleagues also described a simplified counting method that reduces the counting area by 75 percent ("Quality Control of White Cell-Reduced Red Cells: White Cell Preservation and Simplified Counting," Transfusion, 1998;38:429-433).

Tran et al. prepared red cell (RBC) units on the day of collection (Day 0) or on Day 1, and white cell (WBC) reduced by filtration was performed on the same day. Using prefiltration and postfiltration of RBCs, samples that...

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