Measuring Post-transfusion Recovery and Survival of Red Blood Cells: Strengths and Weaknesses of Chromium-51 Labeling and Alternative Methods

The proportion of transfused red blood cells (RBCs) that remain in circulation is an important surrogate marker of transfusion efficacy and contributes to predict the potential benefit of a transfusion process. Over the last 50 years, most of the transfusion recovery data were generated by chromium-...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Medicine
Main Authors:	Camille Roussel, Pierre A. Buffet, Pascal Amireault
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-05-01
Subjects:	transfusion recovery red blood cell spleen red blood cell morphology red blood cell deformability storage lesion
Online Access:	http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmed.2018.00130/full