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Article: New transfusion medicine findings from R.R. Vassallo and co-authors described.(Report)
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- Blood Weekly
- Article date:
- November 5, 2009
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According to recent research from the United States, "Continuous agitation during platelet concentrate (PC) storage is frequently interrupted during shipping. Studies have evaluated the effects of interrupted agitation in apheresis and single whole blood-derived PCs, but not PC pools."
"This study evaluated in vitro properties of pooled whole blood-derived platelets (PLTs) after a 24-hour interruption of agitation. Eleven ABO-identical leukoreduced whole blood-derived PCs (Leukotrap RC-PL, Pall), pooled in a transfer container, were equally divided into each of two CLX-HP containers (Acrodose PL, Pall). One pool (test) was held in a shipping container unagitated ...