The Blood Protective Effect of Autologous Platelet Separation in Aortic Dissection

Objectives

This study aimed to retrospectively analyze the blood protective effect of autologous platelet separation in operations for acute aortic dissection.

Methods

A total of 130 patients with acute aortic dissection were enrolled into the present study. The average age of these patients was 52.962±10.5061 years old. These patients underwent the modified aortic arch replacement with the elephant trunk technique or endovascular aortic exclusion with covered stent. Among these patients, 68 patients who underwent autologous platelet separation were assigned to the platelet separation group, while the remaining patients were assigned to the control group. All operations were performed under deep hypothermic circulatory arrest. After anesthesia, 1–2 therapeutic doses of autologous platelets were isolated from patients in the platelet separation group, and these platelets were quickly infused back to these patients after heparin was neutralized by protamine at the end of the cardiopulmonary bypass. The preoperative and postoperative indexes in these two groups were compared.

Results

There were no statistically significant differences in age, gender, smoking history, drinking history and hypertension history between these two groups. Compared with controls, the transfusion volume of allogeneic platelets in the perioperative period significantly decreased in the platelet separation group (1.919±1.6226 vs. 0.794±1.1789, P <  #x003C;<  #x200A;0.05), and the use rate of allogeneic platelets also significantly decreased (74.19% vs. 45.59%, P <  #x003C;<  #x200A;0.05).

Conclusion

The intraoperative auto transfusion of platelets significantly reduced the volume of allogeneic platelet transfusion after the operation for aortic dissection, which has a significant blood protective effect.