transfusion

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A number of medical situations require platelet transfusions -- such as cases of severe bleeding, or for patients who are going into surgery or receiving chemotherapy.

From Science Daily

About two in five kidney transplant patients need blood transfusions, figures show.

From BBC

On Feb. 28, he emailed again to say he’d had a blood transfusion and the party had been postponed.

From Los Angeles Times

Based on their findings, the researchers say that donors of blood, tissue, organ, and stem cells should be screened for Alzheimer's disease to prevent its inadvertent transfer during blood product transfusions and cellular therapies.

From Science Daily

The team is now studying the mechanisms underlying these results and plans to test other sorts of cellular transplants and blood transfusions, says study co-author Chaahat Singh, a postdoc in Jefferies’s lab.

From Science Magazine