frozen blood

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frozen blood

A blood product consisting of packed red cells, which has a prolonged shelf life given that most of the plasma is replaced with glycerol.

Indications
Rare blood types (e.g., Bombay phenotype), paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria, IgA deficiency with production of anti-IgA antibodies, GVHD, autologous blood storage.

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Within this space, she has 12 operating rooms, 1,000 hospital beds, physical-therapy facilities, a burn intensive-care unit, a frozen blood bank, an infectious-disease ward, even a morgue.

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The researchers analyzed frozen blood samples collected in 1974 from 1,590 residents of Washington County, Maryland, as well as a smoking survey of the same residents conducted in 1975, and compared exposures to passive smoking at home with micronutrient levels in the subjects' blood samples.

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The breakthrough described here allows for study of cells from frozen blood samples already stored at blood banks-even from deceased patients.

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The nearly identical Hgb concentrations among split samples of fresh heparinized blood and among those split samples after freezing, storage, and thawing, suggests that Hgb concentrations obtained by the HemoCue on either fresh or frozen blood are repeatable.

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He has also made a bust of his head from eight pints of his own frozen blood and created a white-painted bronze of 34-year-old Moss in a contorted yoga pose.