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Old Wed Apr 9, 2008, 01:07 AM
Chirley Chirley is offline
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Fat blood bags.

Hi, pleased to hear things are going better. Also good to hear someone else has noticed the difference in volume from bag to bag. I know platelets are different to RBCs but the packaging is the same. This last time I had my blood transfusion the bags of blood took forever to be infused (over 24 hours) and the nurses kept commenting that they had never seen such fat blood bags. Sometimes the bags have 230-240 mls in them, this time every bag had in excess of 300mls. I think some of the volume must have been white cells though because they usually change the leukocyte filters after every 2nd bag. This time the filters gummed up after every bag and had to be changed because they wouldn't let the blood flow through. It makes you appreciate that they use the filters because I wouldn't like to think of the reaction I could have had to that number of white cells otherwise. Best of luck to you and your Dad and I hope that things stay on a plateau for as long as possible.

Chirley
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Copper deficiency bone marrow failure (MDS RAEB 1), neuromyelopathy.
FISH reported normal cytogenetics but gene testing showed
Xq 8.21 mutation
Xq19.36 mutation
Xq21.40. mutation
1p36. Mutation
15q11.2 deletion
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