Platelet transfusions in cancer patients with hypoproliferative thrombocytopenia in the intensive care unit

Annals of Intensive Care

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-8

  Habr, Bassem ^a   Charpentier, Julien ^a   Champigneulle, Benoît ^a,b   Dechartres, Agnès ^b,c   Daviaud, Fabrice ^a,b   Geri, Guillaume ^a,b   Cariou, Alain ^a,b   Chiche, Jean Daniel ^a,b,d   Mira, Jean Paul ^a,b,d   Pène, Frédéric ^a,b,d  

^a Institut Cochin   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c HÔTEL DIEU   (France)

^d INSTITUT COCHIN   (France)

Author keywords

Bleeding; Cancer; Intensive care unit; Thrombocytopenia; Transfusion

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; THROMBOCYTE CONCENTRATE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETERIORATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SEVERITY ASSESSMENT; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HYPOPROLIFERATIVE THROMBOCYTOPENIA; INTENSIVE CARE; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; LEUKOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 84949191978     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21105820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13613-015-0088-2     Document Type: Article

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