michael94
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I've always assumed that donating red blood cells is preferable to plasma because it removes iron. Because I am O+ I get to donate double red platelets. But they do use citrate.
Any opinions about plasma vs rbc?
red blood cells are catabolized into biliverdin and bilirubin, both of which have important functions on their own and in the production of bile. So getting rid of excess iron is not necessarily the only result. I am starting to think that bleeding red blood cells is less desirable than letting them be catabolized through the bile pathway, at least more than 0% of the time