How to Use blood platelet in a Sentence

blood platelet

noun

• His blood platelet count was so low that even a slight bump to his body could trigger a lethal brain bleed.
  — Ryan Prior, CNN, 14 Sep. 2019
• Lab tests showed anemia, low blood platelets, and a buildup of bilirubin (which occurs when red blood cells break down).
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 13 Oct. 2023
• Zinc interacts with blood platelets to help with blood clotting, so getting enough zinc is crucial for the healing of scrapes and cuts, says Gorin.
  — Christine Byrne, Women's Health, 29 Aug. 2023
• Denmark reported two cases of blood clots and low blood platelet counts after the vaccine; one of the cases was fatal.
  — Angela Dewan, CNN, 2 Apr. 2021
• Five years after Bravo, their blood platelet levels had still not returned to normal.
  — Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2021
• The research, published in the journal Nature Medicine, also found erythritol made blood platelets easier to form a clot.
  — Sara Moniuszko, CBS News, 16 May 2023
• What wasn't common to the doctors who treated the babies were the more unusual symptoms: anemia, an elevated heart rate and a low blood platelet count.
  — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 27 Nov. 2019
• Thrombocytopenia means a low blood platelet count, according to the Mayo Clinic.
  — Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press, 10 May 2018
• Side effects of the treatment include vomiting, nausea, liver injury, fever and low blood platelet counts.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 22 June 2023
• The Red Cross also stressed a high demand for blood platelet donations often needed by cancer patients.
  — Andee Erickson, Time, 10 Jan. 2018
• The combination of clots and low blood platelet counts is the same condition reported in dozens of people in Europe who had received the AstraZeneca vaccine.
  — Angela Dewan, CNN, 14 Apr. 2021
• She was hospitalized several times, given transfusions of platelets twice, and treated with high doses of the steroid prednisone, which can raise the blood platelet count.
  — Robert A Norman, Discover Magazine, 16 Sep. 2011
• The food and drug monitoring agency, however, cautioned against the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine for people with a low blood platelet count and blood clotting disorders.
  — Niniek Karmini, Star Tribune, 19 Mar. 2021
• The American Red Cross and blood banks throughout the Chicago area say there’s a blood platelet shortage and is asking those eligible to consider donating in the coming days and weeks.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 27 June 2019
• One report details the case of a Virginia woman in her 40s who passed away after a clot formed in her brain several days after receiving the single-shot vaccine and was diagnosed with low blood platelet counts.
  — Sarah Lynch Baldwin, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2021
• Nicholas was born with a rare disease called thrombocytopenia-absent radius syndrome, which is characterized by missing bones and a low blood platelet count.
  — Brandi Addison, Dallas News, 3 Apr. 2020
• The rare clots, which proved fatal in one case, appeared in people's brains, abdomens and arteries, and were associated with low blood platelet counts, and occasionally bleeding.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2021
• The guidelines include a table that helps teams assign patients to one of four priority groups based on assessments that include a range of factors from blood platelet count oxygenation to gauge the functioning of vital organs.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2020
• Unlike anticoagulant drugs, which interfere with clotting factors in the blood, aspirin works by stopping blood platelets from sticking together to form clots that can block an artery.
  — New York Times, 9 Mar. 2020
• There have been a total of 17 incidents of severe blood clotting while also experiencing low blood platelet levels, according to the CDC report published on Friday.
  — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 1 May 2021
• During the outbreak, 17 people were hospitalized due to the foodborne illness and one person developed hemolytic-uremic syndrome, a condition that can cause anemia, kidney failure, and a low blood platelet count.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 8 Dec. 2017
• Previous work by Jon Gibbins, a cell biologist at the University of Reading, in mice had revealed that in addition to other functions, this protein sits on the surface of blood platelets involved in clot formation.
  — Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 13 Apr. 2023
• Additional lab and animal research presented in the paper revealed that erythritol appeared to be causing blood platelets to clot more readily.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 27 Feb. 2023
• That study, published in February in the American Journal of Hematology, analyzed reports of people who had experienced low blood platelet levels -- not blood clots.
  — Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 19 Apr. 2021
• Among other innovations, Dr. Born was credited with developing a device that measured the speed of the potentially dangerous clumping of blood platelets.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 5 May 2018
• Older or immunocompromised people are most vulnerable to severe outcomes like low blood platelet counts, kidney failure or acute respiratory distress syndrome, in which fluid builds up in the lungs.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 16 Mar. 2023
• Others with more severe cases can develop kidney failure, breathing difficulty or thrombocytopenia, which causes a low blood platelet count.
  — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2023
• Recently Cleveland Clinic researchers reported findings from several studies involving people and animals, that the gut microbiome directly changes the function of blood platelets, influencing the risk for heart attack and stroke.
  — Lauren Delgado, OrlandoSentinel.com, 2 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024