Conversely, patients with spontaneous ICH showed a trend towards benefit from platelet transfusion (OR 1.825, 95% CI 0.892 to 3.734).
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A meta-analysis to determine the effect on survival of platelet transfusions in patients with either spontaneous or traumatic antiplatelet medication-associated intracranial haemorrhage.
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The mortality rate in the treatment group was half than that in the non-treatment group; however, due to the small numbers (2/35 (5.7%) vs 4/31 (12.9%)), the result did not reach statistical significance.
They found no statistically significant difference in outcome between the groups; they did find a trend towards significance for medical decline (defined a priori as an increase in the delivered level of monitoring or intervention because of cardiac, pulmonary or renal decline).