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Katsuyasu Saigo1, Yasuyuki Sakota, Yukako Masuda, Kyoko Matsunaga, Mariko Takenokuchi, Kunihiro Nishimura, Takeshi Sugimoto, Kosuke Sakurai, Makoto Hashimoto, Tomoko Yanai, Akira Hayakawa, Yasuhiro Takeshima, Tsutomu Nomura, Yoshitsugu Kubota, Shunichi Kumagai.
Abstract
Immature or reticulated platelets are known as a clinical marker of thrombopoiesis. Recently, an automatic method was established to detect reticulated platelets as immature platelet fraction (IPF) by means of hematology analyzer XE-2100. We assessed the effects of IPF detection after chemotherapy for various pediatric malignant disorders of 16 patients. Our results indicate that IPF should be considered a useful marker of imminent platelet recovery so that unnecessary platelet transfusion can be avoided.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID： 18331815 DOI： 10.1016/j.transci.2008.01.003
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Transfus Apher Sci ISSN： 1473-0502 Impact factor: 1.764