Whole blood is used for transfusions. Red cells are used to treat accident/burn victims, to replace blood lost during surgery, to increase the blood's oxygen-carrying capacity, and to treat anemia that can't be medically corrected. Platelets are used to treat people with bone marrow failure,...
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Blood transfusion, transfer of blood into the vein of a human or animal recipient. The blood may be taken directly from a donor or obtained from a blood bank. Blood transfusions are a therapeutic measure used to restore blood or plasma volume. Learn more
For Mitchell Lazarus, a retired lawyer, adult stem cell transfusions may have been the difference between life or death. Six years ago, Lazarus, 78, was diagnosed with his second form of blood cancer— "this one, leukemia"—and he credits a transfusion with saving him. “I c...