Why platelet therapy?
Platelet transfusions may be necessary to control or prevent excessive bleeding if a patient’s body stops producing platelets or produces them in significantly decreased numbers. This commonly occurs as results of leukemia, chemotherapy and radiation, open heart surgery, and trauma associated with a large amount of bleeding. It is only because of platelet therapy that clinicians are able to treat cancer with chemotherapy and radiation therapies much more aggressively than was possible in the past.
