Open AccessExamination of the percentage of immature platelet fraction in term and preterm infants at birth
Author(s) -
Yuko Sakurai,
Tomohiro Takeda,
Atsushi Hirota,
Yoshiya Hisaeda,
Syusuke Amakata,
Atsushi Nakao,
Tadashi Kawakami
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of clinical neonatology/journal of clinical neonatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1658-6093
pISSN - 2249-4847
DOI - 10.4103/2249-4847.123095
Subject(s) - medicine , term (time) , quantum mechanics , physics
Reticulated platelets (RPs) are newly synthesized platelets. Recently, an automatic method was established to detect RPs as a percentage of the immature platelet fraction (IPF%). Although, neonates often develop thrombocytopenia at some time during their hospitalization, the details of IPF% in neonates remain unclear. We, therefore, studied the relations between IPF% and other factors to gain a more detailed understanding of IPF% in neonates.