Response to the Article on Dimethyl Sulfoxide–Cryopreserved Platelets Published in Transfusion Medicine Reviews Volume 28(4)

We were interested in the article “Review of in vivo studies of dimethyl sulfoxide cryopreserved platelets” by Slichter et al [1] and would like to draw attention to our work in this field, which is described in the monograph “Non-surgical bleeding diathesis in anemic thrombocytopenic patients: role of temperature, RBC, platelets, and plasma clotting proteins” [2]. This monograph reports the role of red blood cell function to exert a hemostatic effect together with the platelet hemostatic function of fresh, liquid-preserved, and dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO)–cryopreserved platelets to reduce the bleeding time and nonsurgical blood loss in healthy volunteers, patients, and baboons.

Source: Transfusion Medicine Reviews - March 26, 2015 Category: Hematology Authors: C. Robert Valeri, Gina Ragno Giorgio Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research