Postoperative bleeding after dentoalveolar surgery in patients with thrombocytopenia-are prophylactic platelet transfusions necessary?

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Benefits of prophylactic platelet (PLT) transfusion before dentoalveolar surgery are unclear. This study investigated the effect of prophylactic PLT transfusions on the incidence of postoperative bleeding (POB) in patients with thrombocytopenia and a PLT count ≤ 75*10⁹/L.

Methods

The cohort in this retrospective study comprised 83 patients with thrombocytopenia ≤ 75*10⁹/L who had undergone dentoalveolar surgery. Exclusion criteria were other coagulation deficiencies or medications that would affect hemostasis. In all, 144 teeth had been removed. POB events were extracted and compared between the group that had received prophylactic PLT transfusion before dentoalveolar surgery and the group that had not.

Results

POB events were observed in

SUBMITTER: Lundstrom J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11456549 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature