In the study by Nascimento and colleagues, 1 the patients who received increased plasma
and platelet transfusions had greater mortality due to bleeding (22%) than the control group …

In the study by Nascimento and colleagues, 1 the patients who received increased plasma
and platelet transfusions had greater mortality due to bleeding (22%) than the control group …

In the study by Nascimento and colleagues, 1 the patients who received increased plasma
and platelet transfusions had greater mortality due to bleeding (22%) than the control group …

The transfusion of ABO non-identical platelets is an accepted practice, involving infusion of
antigen and/or antibody that is ABO incompatible with the recipient. This results in the …

Early randomized trials, although small, clearly demonstrated that use of ABO nonidentical
platelets leads to dramatic increases in platelet transfusion refractoriness, a potentially lethal …

Three observations led us to investigate whether infusion of ABO non-identical platelets
might impair, rather than improve hemostasis.(1) Exposure of platelets to immune …

The transfusion of high ratios of plasma and plate-lets to packed red blood cells, known as
hemostatic resuscitation, in patients requiring massive transfusion has become a standard of …

Background Due to platelet availability limitations, platelet units ABO mismatched to
recipients are often transfused. However, since platelets express ABO antigens and are …

Not being a transfusion medicine specialist, I was asked to write this editorial to bring an
“outsider's” perspective to the issue being addressed by Dunbar and Yazer1 in this issue of …

Prevention of ABO-incompatible red blood cell (RBC) transfusion to avoid life-threatening
transfusion reactions is of utmost importance in the practice of transfusion medicine. While …