Platelet transfusion in neonates and children varies widely, with donor and processing factors linked to lower platelet increments and higher transfusion burden but not to mortality or length of stay.

The Food and Drug Administration recently approved two novel thrombopoiesis-stimulating agents, Romiplostim (AMG-531, Nplate) and Eltrombopag (Promacta), for the treatment of adults with immune ...

There is a lack of evidence-based guidelines for neonatal transfusion practices as seen by the diverse RBC transfusion practices among individuals and institutions. [3,5,27,28,29,30,31,32] The US ...

“Few studies have directly evaluated the neonatal risk of pregnancy-onset ITP compared to previously-diagnosed ITP,” study authors Drs. Amihai Rottenstreich, Noa Israeli, and colleagues from Hadassah ...

The use of low-dose platelet transfusion in patients undergoing hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation with platelet counts less than 10,000/mm 3 did not significantly affect bleeding compared with ...

A 34-year-old woman (gravida 3, para 2) at 16 weeks’ gestation was found to have platelets unable to be quantified because of clumping on routine prenatal blood work, with a visual estimate of 40 ...

How Does Doptelet Work in Thrombocytopenia? Thrombocytopenia is when your blood has too few platelets (also called thrombocytes). Platelets are blood cells made in the soft, spongy tissue inside your ...