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Krismar Glen Brillantes, quality assurance officer of PRC Pangasinan, said there is a shortage of platelet concentrate in their blood bank.

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Bernard Soulier Syndrome is an inherited platelet function disorder characterized by mucocutaneous bleeding, thrombocytopenia and giant platelaets with absence of platelet aggregation in response of Ristocetine.1 BSS with an autosomal-recessive inheritance was first described by Bernard and Soulier in 1948.2 The prevalence of BSS has been estimated around one in one million.

On May 10, a male patient with cirrhosis and thrombocytopenia (patient B) received a platelet transfusion at hospital B to prevent bleeding before a procedure (Figure).

M2 PHARMA-May 1, 2019-Blood Centers of America, Verax Biomedical Enter into Group Purchasing Agreement for the Use of the Verax Platelet PGD Test

Platelets perform multiple functions related to hemostasis and can be activated by multiple pathways; thus, no single platelet function test can assess all aspects of platelet function or diagnose all the different abnormalities that can occur.

The amount of actin in intact platelets in newborn piglets averaged 26.2 [+ or -] 0.10% of the total protein in the platelet.

A platelet transfusion can be the difference between life and death.

The therapeutic approach involves modifying human platelets to create "decoys" that are still capable of binding to some cells but will not aggregate or carry out the other normal platelet functions, including chemical signalling associated with the clotting process.

eNOS generates NO in both vascular endothelial cells and platelets. The eNOS-generated NO plays a key role in the cardiovascular protective functions through inhibition of platelet aggregation, leukocyte endothelium adhesion, chemokine expression, inflammatory cell infiltration and reduction of vascular smooth muscle proliferation (5).

More than 4.5 million platelet units of plasma are transfused every year worldwide, a need that must be met by human donors.

The recommendations apply to "all platelet products, including platelets manufactured by automated methods (apheresis platelets), whole blood derived (WBD) platelets, pooled platelets (pre-storage and post-storage) and platelets stored in additive solutions."