Word: platelets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Through the Sidewalk. Also spun out by centrifugation are platelets, the tiny disks involved in clotting. There is still no effective way to prolong their useful life beyond four to six hours, says the center's Dr. Fred H. Allen Jr. So, as soon as they are extracted, the center rushes them to nearby hospitals, notably Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where there are always patients whose platelet count has been cut dangerously low by the drugs needed to treat their leukemia. Still other clotting factors, such as those needed by hemophilia victims, are precipitated...