The Relation Between the Age of Red Cells Labelled with Radio‐Iron and Haemolysis Induced by Mechanical Trauma and Rapid Freezing‐Thawing

Abstract

When blood is stored in acid citrate-dextrose solution, a number of processes take place which eventually make the red cells unable to survive after transfusion. Many of these processes have been extensively studied in recent years (see PRANKERD [ll], MOLLISON 181, BARTLETT [l] and DE VERDIER, HOGMAN, KILLANDER and GARBY [4]),