Topic Teaching: Anti-platelet Antibodies and the Problems They Cause

Event details

Speaker(s):

Dr. Donald Arnold
Associate Professor, Division of Hematology and Thromboembolism,
Department of Medicine
McMaster University

Event objective(s):

To understand mechanisms of platelet allo-antibody formation
To describe clinical platelet alloantibody syndromes (e.g. platelet refractoriness)
To answer: Why would I send you a paper to read that was published the same year I graduated med school?

Reference(s):

1. Warkentin et al. The Alloimmune Thrombocytopenic Syndromes. Transfusion Medicine Reviews 1997.

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