Granulocyte Transfusions For Leukopenic Recipients
Abstract
An approach to granulocyte transfusions using donors with myelocytic leukemia for leukopenic recipients was described at the Washington, DC, annual meeting of the American Association of Blood Banks.
Edward E. Morse, MD, director of the blood bank at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, said donors with chronic myelocytic leukemia were used because plasmapheresis does not provide adequate numbers of granulocytes from normal donors.
"The transfusion of normal...