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Ablood product is any therapeutic substance prepared from humanblood.[1] This includeswhole blood; blood components; and plasma derivatives. Blood components include:red blood cell concentrates or suspensions;platelets produced from whole blood or via apheresis;Granulocyte,plasma; andcryoprecipitate. Some products for topical use, such as serum eye drops, have also been recently classified as blood components.[2] Plasma derivatives are plasma proteins prepared under pharmaceutical manufacturing conditions, including: albumin; coagulation factor concentrates; andimmunoglobulins.
Blood products may also be calledblood-based products or blood-derived products. to differentiate them fromblood substitutes, which generally refer to artificially produced products. Although many blood products have the effect of volume expansion, the group is usually distinguished fromvolume expanders, which generally refers to artificially produced substances and are thereby within the scope ofblood substitutes.
