As many as necessary to prevent bleeding associated with thrombocytopenia.
In patients refractory to random donor platelet transfusions, platelet crossmatching may identify units providing better platelet count increases. If crossmatching is not effective, HLA matching of platelets may be necessary.
Answering "How often do leukemia patients need blood transfusions?"
There is no set limit on the number of blood transfusions that one can receive during one's lifetime.
Leukemia, along with many other conditions. but typically it is aplastic anemia
There are many medications that can affect the results of the platelet aggregation test. The patient should discontinue as many as possible beforehand.
LEUKEMIA IS NOT EXTINCT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Many people have leukemia and many are also getting the disease!
Blood can be typed by several other minor antigens, such as Kell, Duffy, and Lewis. These minor antigens can become important when a patient has received many transfusions.
Because of the patient's coagulopathy, he was bleeding from many small injuries. Transfusions of blood and platelets are a common treatment for coagulopathy: the failure of the blood to clot.
Unfortunately, often times leukemia, a form of cancer, cannot be cured and the patient does not survive. Many times, leukemia can be treated for a time and sometimes the cancer goes away. Sadly, there are times when even the best doctor cannot cure leukemia. Technically, if you have leukemia you are never fully "cured", you just lose the bad cells and go into remission.
In 2000, about 209,000 people died from leukemia.
Lupus patients often have thrombocytopenic anemia, either because the immune system attacks and destroys platelets or the immune system interferes with the manufacture of platelets in the bone marrow. Platelets are the part of the blood that cause the blood to clot. If the blood does not clot, people bleed.
You sure can! You are just unable to give or donate blood from now on.
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Many things, most common is anemia. Differntial is multiple myeloma, mets, leukemia, and myelofibrosis. Findings have to be correlated with patient history and labs.
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