Items for "platelet transfusion"

The use of recombinant factor VIIa in a primigravida with Glanzmann’s thrombasthenia during delivery

Glanzmann’s thrombasthenia is an inherited hemorrhagic disorder characterized by a severe reduction in, or absence of, platelet aggregation in response to multiple physiologic agonists due to qualitative or quantitative abnormalities of platelet glycoprotein IIb-IIIa...

Keywords: Glanzmann?s thrombasthenia, platelet transfusion, postpartum hemorrhage, pregnancy, recombinant human coagulation factor VIIa (rFVIIa)