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Can anyone explain what’s going on with these WBC?-
21:42 UTC
Just 800k lymphocytes.
Patient is known with CLL and when he first arrived he had 900k WBC. Went down to 800k in one week.
14:34 UTC
Is there such a thing as a picture atlas of peripheral blood smears for manual diff?
Like especially for all kinds of anemia? I'm a relative newbie and find it very hard to find some nice images. I know many anemias can present vastly different, but I'm looking for very characteristic smear images. For example I find it super hard to find a picture of fanconi anemia peripheral blood smears. So I'd love a compilation of most or every anemia, a characterization of the blood smear and then pictures of it.
The picture is unrelated! I just needed to add an attachment in order to be able to post.
Thanks if anyone can help, hope this is an okay question for this sub!
14:04 UTC
BTK Table
Created this BTK agent table if anyone finds it helpful.
06:34 UTC
ET or PMF?
How does one determine if these megakaryocytes are in clusters of irregular/bizarre vs mature with hyperlobulation?
How does one determine if there is a lack fibrosis definitively?
Is there a way to definitely diagnose this sample as either ET or PMF?
14:05 UTC
Curious about what this looks like to you.
Everyone here had a different take. I'll add what the professor with years of experience had to say about this too, but after a few responses. Patient had no other changes on CBC than a slight neutropenia.
13:12 UTC
I found a smiley face in a blood smear
11:31 UTC
Any tip to study all types of anemias? I'm having a hard time memorizing all of them and why they occur. Image of acanthocytes bc I find them cute
Please tell me how you memorized them. My brain won't memorize all the text :')
Videos? Brain map... any tip helps
Thank you!
11:30 UTC
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19:15 UTC
When MCH and MCHC are over 300 and RBC just 0.25 => ❄️ agglutinins
21:31 UTC
What cell is this?
01:39 UTC
Concurrent Pernicious Anemia and Cold AIHA
Had a case last week with a young woman came in with an Hgb of 4. Work up by the primary team showed an undetectable B12 level but her undetectable haptoglobin and LDH above the reportable threshold had me have blood bank run a DAT that was positive for complement. Her cold agglutin titers were >1:128. Anti-intrensic factors interestingly came back positive as well. In her schmear you can see hyper segmented pmns, microsphereocytes and macro ovalocytes. An interesting reminder that folks can have flees and ticks!
05:09 UTC
Hi guys, can anyone tell what is this cell. (TTP)
20:51 UTC
Any ideas
Apologies for the bad resolution. This cell doesn’t have a nucleus and the eosinophilia stain seems to be granules. The rest of the smear appears to dysmorphic neutrophils (not like typical MDS, more like sepsis) and many promyelocytes
07:12 UTC
Is there a chance to have atlas in pdf free version?
14:36 UTC