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Preservation of whole blood in frozen state for transfusion

M M STRUMIA, L C COLWELL, P V STRUMIA

    Science (New York, N.Y.)
    |October 24, 1958
    PubMed

    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 degrees C.

    Keywords:
    BLOOD, PRESERVED

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