TRANSFUSION AND APHERESIS SCIENCE, cilt.36, sa.3, ss.285-289, 2007 (SCI-Expanded)
Platelet concentrates are routinely manufactured from whole blood by differential centrifugation (random donor platelets-RDP) or by plateletpheresis (single donor platelets-SDP). These platelet concentrates have a storage period of 5 days and many different approaches exist to measure the condition of platelets during their storage.