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Peripheral Blood Smear Analysis
Hypochromia
Megaloblastic Anemia
Schistocytes: Microangiopathic hemolytic anemia (e.g. DIC, TTP, HUS)
Microspherocytes: Autoimmune hemolytic anemia
Sickled red
Peripheral Blood ... Smear Analysis ... #Blood #Smear # ... Analysis #hematology ... interpretation #clinical
Peripheral blood findings in microangiopathic hemolytic anemia.  DIC is a clinical and laboratory diagnosis, not
Peripheral blood ... DIC is a clinical ... smear changes are ... #Hematology #Pathology ... #Smear #Microscopy
Indications for Serum Protein Electrophoresis (SPEP)
 • Suspected multiple myeloma, Waldenström's macroglobulinemia, primary amyloidosis, or related
• Unexplained peripheral ... • New-onset anemia ... bleeding) • Rouleaux ... blood smear • ... • Unexplained pathologic
Autoagglutination should also be distinguished from “Rouleaux formation” wherein normal blood tends to form stacks on
distinguished from “Rouleaux ... wherein normal blood ... #Clinical #Pathology ... #Blood #Smear # ... #Formation #Hematology
Peripheral blood smear of a patient with tick bite and PCR positive for Ehrlichia ewingii.

Ehrlichia ewinqii
Peripheral blood ... smear of a patient ... #Morulae #Hematology ... #Pathology #Microscopy ... #TickBite #Clinical
Babesiosis on Peripheral Smear
85 M from SE USA, hx splenectomy, IgG4 plasmacytic syndrome: F, chills, profound
post exchange: blood ... inclusions, improved clinically ... and spur cells, +rouleoux ... lysis: fever, anemia ... #microti #clinical
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia - Summary

Cancer affecting lymphocytes/Mature B cell neoplasm
 • Lymphocytes accumulate in large numbers
Orange or Hep C Clinical ... cytometry • Peripheral ... smear: Smudge cells ... Lymphocytosis: Absolute blood ... • Neutropenia, anemia