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Patients who repeatedly fail to get an appropriate response to platelet transfusions are said to be refractory. Such patients can be highly difficult to manage, particularly when there is an immune cause to the refractoriness. Solve it!
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Friedman, M.T., West, K.A., Bizargity, P., Annen, K., Gur, H.D., Hilbert, T. (2023). Do the Math!. In: Immunohematology, Transfusion Medicine, Hemostasis, and Cellular Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14638-1_54
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