Is platelet gel safe enough for neutropenic patients?

Affiliations

• ¹ Haematology Dept, Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland; Department of Internal Medicine V, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria. Electronic address: apiccin@gmail.com.
• ² UOC Ematologia e Trapianto di Midollo, Universita' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A Gemelli, Roma, Italy.
• ³ Servizio di Medicina Trasfusionale, Universita' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A Gemelli, Roma, Italy.
• ⁴ Paediatric BMT Unit, Children's Medical Center, Tehran University of Medicine, Tehran, Iran.
• ⁵ Department of Internal Medicine V, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria; Medical Clinic 3, Oncology, Hematology, Immunoncology and Rheumatology, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
• ⁶ King's College Hospital, London, UK.
• ⁷ Dept of Dentistry, Bolzano Regional Hospital, Bolzano, Italy.
• ⁸ Haematology Dept and HSCT Unit, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
• ⁹ Irish Blood Transfusion Service, Dublin, Ireland.
• ¹⁰ Haematology Dept, Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland; University College Dublin, Ireland.