Filtering donor blood reduces heart, lung complications
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - 14:02
in Health & Medicine
Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) have discovered yet another reason to filter the foreign white cells from donor blood: The resulting blood product is associated with dramatically fewer cardiopulmonary complications for patients who received a transfusion.
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