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SUBMITTER: Crighton GL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4610062 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Crighton Gemma L GL Estcourt Lise J LJ Wood Erica M EM Trivella Marialena M Doree Carolyn C Stanworth Simon S
The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 20150930 9
<h4>Background</h4>Platelet transfusions are used in modern clinical practice to prevent and treat bleeding in thrombocytopenic patients with bone marrow failure. Although considerable advances have been made in platelet transfusion therapy in the last 40 years, some areas continue to provoke debate, especially concerning the use of prophylactic platelet transfusions for the prevention of thrombocytopenic bleeding.This is an update of a Cochrane review first published in 2004 and updated in 2012 ...[more]