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Christine "Go Donate Blood" Rousselle
crousselle
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
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Rajeev Jayadevan
RajeevJayadevan
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
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Dr Dianne E. van der Wal 💉🔬👩🎓
DianvanderwalDr
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
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The intensivist
Madar_bhagat
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
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Tinu Cherian Abraham
tinucherian
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
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Vincent Rajkumar
VincentRK
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
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Hilda Bastian, PhD
hildabast
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-
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M Mabeuf
mmabeuf
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
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Guy Gadboit
gadboit
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.
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Danielle Maracaja, MD, MHS
MaracajaDLV
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.
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Joshua Zeidner
LeukDocJZ
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
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Darren Markland
drdagly
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
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willo
mozfart
@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
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Farid Jalali MD
farid__jalali
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
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Anas Nasir
underthe_scope
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."
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Tony Breu
tony_breu
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
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