Granulocyte transfusions: Anti-leukocyte alloantibodies in determining recovery rate.

Granulocyte transfusions.

Granulocyte transfusions: current status.

Since granulocyte transfusions first became widely used in clinical medicine, there have been advances in the treatment of acute leukemia and improvement in prevention and management of infection in neutropenic patients. Improved understanding now exists concerning prognosis of infections in such patients, and advances have been made in procurement of granulocytes. Granulocyte transfusions shou...

Therapeutic granulocyte transfusions in 1993.

Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor-primed leukocyte transfusions in candida tropicalis fungemia in neutropenic patients.

Optimal management of fungemia in neutropenic patients is still controversial. Several reports have already stressed the poor prognosis in invasive candidiasis (80% mortality in several reports). Therefore granulocyte transfusions would appear to be useful in the management of these infections. We report the use of rhG-CSF-primed granulocyte transfusions plus amphotericin B in two neutropenic p...

ABC of Transfusion. Platelet and granulocyte transfusions.

Multiple.packs for collection of blood. Left to right: transfer pack containing optimal additive solution; primary pack containing 450 ml of blood in anticoagulant; and pack for collection of platelets with extended shelf ife. Transfusion of platelets and granulocytes may be needed for patients with life threatening thrombocytopenia and neutropenia caused by bone marrow failure. These may be th...