Do you typically recommend platelet transfusions in patients with spontaneous ICH?
Do you have a particular cutoff?
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Neurology · Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
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Enthusiasm for platelet transfusion for spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage among patients on antiplatelet therapy has been dampened by the results of the PATCH study. The small 190-patient randomized study demonstrated worse outcomes for those assigned to platelet transfusion. While the serious ad...
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Neurology · Novant Health
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Indication for plts transfusion in ICH is when a patient needs an emergent neurosurgery.
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