[Evaluation of Storage Performance of Preserving Bags for Manually Separated Platelets].

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the storage performance of the domestically made platelet storage bags (experimental group) and the United States Trima set platelet storage bags (control group). METHODS: The manually separated platelets were divided in two equal parts, which was added to control blood bags and experimental blood bags respectively, all samples were stored at a 22 °C ± 2 °C. The platelet count, mean volume, aggregation activity (ADP, THR), pH, glucose, lactate concentration, lactate dehydrogenase concentration, hypotonic shock reaction, CD62P and phosphatidic acid serine content were detected at day 0, 3, 5 and 7 of storage. RESULTS: There was no significant difference of platelet quality at day 5 after storage between the experimental group and the control group (T-test, P > 0.05). CONCLUSION: Two kinds of platelet storage bags have the similar storage performance.

[Research advance on frozen injury and protective mechanisms of cryopreservated platelets].

Platelets are important component in the blood which play vital role in physiological hemostasis. In clinic, platelets are usually transfused to patients suffered from idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura,thrombocytopenia after chemotherapy and radiotherapy,or hemorrhagic thrombocytopenia caused by other reasons. Storage time for platelet concentrates is limited to five days at room temperature, leading to an increasing number of scrap rate, therefore the prolonging the storage time is important for clinical application. Storage at -80°C is an ideal long-term cryopreservation method for platelet concentrates. In this article, platelets cryopreservation,the mechanism of frozen injury and the protective mechanisms of platelets were reviewed.