Study and Reference material for Medical Laboratory Sciences
Category: Red Blood Cells
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A Complete Blood Count with Differential is performed on the DXH 900 for a patient with severe sepsis & intravascular hemolysis. Due to the high percentage of neutrophils detected, a manual slide review is performed. Increased band neutrophils are seen, indicating a left shift. A manual differential is performed with the following results: 46% segmented…
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A CBCD is ran on the DXH900 for a patient with Beta Thalassemia. Numerous nucleated red blood cells (NRBCs) are detected which interfere with the automated differential, producing ‘R’ flags. This interference can be seen in the 5PD1 scatterplot. Because of the presence of NRBCs and flags on the automated differential, a manual differential must…