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Administration of platelets to ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm patients before open surgery: a prospective, single-blinded, randomised study.
Transfusion medicine (Oxford, England)2018IF: 0.7
Lunen T B, Johansson P I, Jensen L P, Homburg K M, Roeder O C, Lonn L, Secher N H, Helgstrand U, Carstensen M, Jensen K B, Lange T, Sillesen H, Swiatek F, Nielsen H B
PMID: 29781549View on PubMed
Abstract
In patients undergoing open surgery for a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (rAAA), survivors demonstrate a high platelet count, and proactive administration of platelets (and fresh frozen plasma) appears to influence mortality.