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Eighteen subjects received a total of 50 transfusions of lipemic plasma which was well tolerated. The most significant laboratory tests were associated with fragility of erythrocytes exposed to fatty plasma both in vitro and after injection into the circulatory blood. The mechanism for alterations in fragility of erythrocytes remains undetermined but seems to account for the varying thermogenic reaction complicating the use of both natural and artificial intravenous fat emulsions.
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