Dr. Leontios Pappas (Medicine): An 80-year-old woman was admitted to this hospital because of pancytopenia and the identification of schistocytes on a peripheral-blood smear. Six weeks before ...

The white-cell count was 4200 per microliter (reference range, 4200 to 9900), of which 40% were blasts. A peripheral-blood smear was notable for circulating blasts with Auer rods.

Researchers identified 3 groups with distinctive patterns of overall survival (OS), among which they determined additional prognostic value in patients with <5% bone marrow blasts. Analyzing a ...

If a patients presents with the symptoms of acute myeloid leukemia a battery of tests are ordered. The tests used to diagnose AML include the following. First a complete blood count is prescribed.

Examination reveals that her heart rate is 109 bpm, blood ... peripheral smear reveals profound, isolated thrombocytopenia consistent with immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) with no schistocytes ...

The World Health Organization criteria for diagnosing chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML) are largely based on findings observed in the peripheral blood and bone marrow aspirate. A specific ...

Doctors can tell whether leukemia is acute or chronic by assessing the number of blasts in a person’s bone marrow or peripheral blood smear. Blasts are dysfunctional or immature cells that ...

Consider referral if the WBC count is >20,000 or blast forms are present on a smear. —Christopher Ruser, MD (100-16) From the February 09, 2007 Issue of Clinical Advisor ...

Scopio is an imaging company looking to re-imagine a common blood test called a peripheral blood smear. In essence, that’s a test where a doctor, usually looking to understand an anomaly in a ...

A blood smear is also used to identify the types of white blood cells present, which can help determine if an infection (if present) is viral, bacterial, or parasitic. This test can diagnose or ...