Blood Banks

Researchers' data from Germany and the United States advance blood banks research

Published in Blood Weekly, August 3rd, 2006

Data on blood banks are outlined in reports from Germany and the United States.

Study 1: Platelet additive solutions offer several advantages for platelet storage.

According to a recently published report from Germany, "The storage of platelets (PLTs) in PLT additive solutions (PASs) might have several advantages. It can reduce allergic and febrile transfusion reactions, facilitate ABO-incompatible PLT transfusions, enable pathogen inactivation, and make more plasma available for other purposes (eg, for fractionation)."

"For this reason," wrote J. Ringwald and colleagues at the University of Klinikum Erlangen, "there has been...

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Source: Blood Weekly (2006-08-03)

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