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 ...

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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.

This is called peripheral blood smear. The blood smear may be normal if the blast cells are confined to the bone marrow. Blood clotting is tested by checking elevated prothrombin time, ...

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 ...

Furthermore, the team was able to rule out Evans syndrome, based on the patient's isolated thrombocytopenia on peripheral smear, normal reticulocyte count of 103 thousand/μL (reference range 44 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Peripheral smear blood tests are part of a battery of different assessments that can be used to identify blood diseases. But these days, they’re not the first-line option, in most cases.