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"Storage Stability of Combined Hyper- and Regular Platelet Concentrates Prepared by Cobe Spectra LRS."

Published in Blood Weekly, July 13th, 1998

According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Consensus Conference on Platelet Transfusion, held November 27-28, 1997, in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, "Volume reduced leucodepleted platelet concentrates (hyperconcentrate-HC) is needed for fetal transfusion. Currently, this product can be obtained in combination with regular platelet concentrate (R) without additional leucocyte filtration and concentration steps, using Cobe Spectra LRS. However, there is limited information on the storage stability of such a product. We evaluated the storage stability of HC as compared with R of the same origin. HC and R were kept in a nominal plasma...

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