#Platelets

Christine "Go Donate Blood" Rousselle

Twitter: let’s talk about blood and platelet donation. Both whole blood and platelets are critically important and in constant demand. That demand hasn’t changed with the COVID-19 outbreak. Many people

Rajeev Jayadevan

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Adenovirus-induced thrombocytopenia: the role of von Willebrand factor | Blood | Othman et al American Society of Hematology 2007 |1. Adenoviruses, when given intravenously as in gene therapy, may directly

Dr Dianne E. van der Wal 💉🔬👩‍🎓

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For @pintofscienceau I am a sr #scientist @lifebloodau which is the blood bank of Australia. I work with smallest #blood cells the #platelets #ThisIsMyScience #OurBody @pintofscienceau #platelets are important and

The intensivist

My observations1. Tachycardia and thrombocytopenia in OPD is a bad sign. 2. Obese and diabetic can worsen any time in second week even if CT on 6th day has low

Tinu Cherian Abraham

For my Aunt. Please help!Required for patient undergoing Bone Marrow Transplant at Aster Medicity, Ernakulam/ Kochi, KeralaSee Criteria for donors.Need to be identified this weekContact: Georgye 9947783530 / Nikhil 8939707741@BloodDonorsIn

Vincent Rajkumar

Astra Zeneca vaccine & blood clots. Summary.Rare form of blood clots plus low platelets. ~60% involve veins of brain. Almost all after 1st dose. Risk (UK MHRA): 1 in 250,000

Hilda Bastian, PhD

The FDA has said it investigated the blood clot/low platelets cases after J&J vaccine & found no causal association with the vaccine: they're continuing to investigate. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-10/johnson-and-johnson-

If you've been following the "severe covid is serotonin syndrome" story for the past year like I have, the doctors behind the theory have a preprint up: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3800402 This paper

Plain English thread on how VITT might work, according to the latest Greinacher findings https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-440461/v1. One of your immune system's jobs is to deal with infections like colds and flus.

Danielle Maracaja, MD, MHS

Hi, let’s discuss #ITP! Pls respond the poll and see the thread below. #bloodbank #blooducation How comfortable you feel with a platelet of 1 thou/uL in a case of ITP.

First #Covid_19 experience today- reinforces the atypical symptoms that may be present at diagnosis. A newly diagnosed MDS patient with anemia (normal WBC, ANC and platelets) in her 60's admitted

Darren Markland

Everyone keeps telling you that the side effects from AstraZeneca and Jansen vaccines are rare and you should get the vaccine. I totally 100% agree with this, but trust is

@farid__jalali @__ice9 Melatonin seem to help as well.https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.15.20213546v1 "Melatonin inhibits several physiological processes in platelets including the aggregation phenomenon the release of AT

Farid Jalali MD

Folks - if your covid patient is doing well respiratory wise but suddenly starts to become delirious and agitated and hallucinate -> tachypnea - it is due to SEROTONIN excess

10 minutes // (#ADayInTheLifeOfABiomedicalScientist)1. The phone rings, the emergency one."Hi, it's switchboard here. I've got OIR on the line," said the voice."Go ahead," I replied. "Put them through."

1/16Why does uremia cause platelet dysfunction (i.e., what are "uremic platelets")?The association between kidney disease and bleeding has been observed for centuries and remains incompletely understood.Let's have a look at