AAOS: Uncertain Future for Platelet-Rich Plasma

  published at MedPage Today...  http://ow.ly/1nBpu
Clinicians are trying to determine where platelet-rich plasma (PRP) fits into the armamentarium of treatments for orthopedic injuries.
 PRP is created by taking an individual's whole blood, putting it into a centrifuge, concentrating the platelets, and injecting the platelet-rich mixture into a site of injury. While normal whole blood has about 200,000 platelets per microliter, PRP has about 2,000,000.
PRP is rich in cytokines and other growth factors, but studies have yielded mixed results regarding its effectiveness in repairing various typ...