The insights from such findings will contribute both to a better understanding of the complexities of hemostasis and to the design of ever more effective and safer platelet substitutes for ...

THE hemorrhagic tendency of thrombocytopenic animals can be controlled temporarily by transfusions of fresh platelet concentrates. 1,2 The clinical value of platelet transfusions has previously ...

This first stage of blood clotting is known as primary hemostasis. Once the platelets form a temporary plug, blood-clotting factor II (prothrombin) changes to its activated version, factor IIa ...

This sets hemostasis, the process of stopping blood flow, into motion to prevent too much blood loss. Special blood cells called platelets are sent to the surgical site, where they clump together ...