Preservation of Whole Blood in Frozen State for Transfusion
- 24 October 1958
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 128 (3330) , 1002-1003
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.128.3330.1002
Abstract
Addition of sugars to whole citrated human blood permits freezing and thawing with recovery of a large percentage of erythrocytes. Survival of erythrocytes thus frozen, transfused without further modification after thawing, has been satisfactory after 6 months of storage at –93°C.Keywords
This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit: