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A 37-year-old woman initially presented with pancytopenia and found to have leukopenia (2.1 × 103/μL) with
promyelocytes, anemia ... She was diagnosed ... blood smear showed ... #Blood #Smear # ... Microscopy #Auer
Bandemia Overview

Normal: < 1%
Clinically significant: > 10%

Band neutrophils are slightly less mature than segmented neutrophils and
Bandemia Overview ... approximately 5-10% of peripheral ... on the left Myeloblast ... Degree of bandemia ... #neutrophil #WBC
Causes of Anemia with elevated Mean Corpuscular Volume (MCV) - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Normal Blood Smear
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Causes of Anemia ... Smear • Drugs ... • Pernicious Anemia ... • Pernicious Anemia ... #Macrocytic #Anemia
Causes of Thrombocytopenia and Platelet Disorders - Differential Diagnosis and Workup
History:
 - Prior platelet count, family
- Differential Diagnosis ... decreased PLT count: CBC ... plateletcount), peripheral ... blood smear, HIV ... changes), high MCV anemia
Algorithm for the evaluation of macrocytic anemia. (RBC = red blood cell; MMA = methylmalonic acid.)
Physicians
of macrocytic anemia ... (RBC = red blood ... elevated, but anemia ... megaloblastic anemia ... #Macrocytic #Anemia
Leukemias Overview: ALL, CML, AML, APML, CLL

Acute leukemias > 20% blasts in the peripheral blood smear
blood smear or ... • Immature/Myeloblasts ... Age: 50-60 • Auer ... - infiltrates (anemia ... Hematology #Oncology #Diagnosis
Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)

What?
Myelodysplastic syndromes are a group of disorders caused by blood cells that are poorly
cell count (anemia ... Anemia • Bone ... Megaloblastic Anemia ... Myelophthisic Anemia ... blood smear
TTP - Laboratory Evaluation for Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura

Activity of von Willebrand factor-cleaving protease activity - A
result in severe anemia ... the range of Peripheral ... blood smear - Shows ... immune hemolytic anemia ... from ischemia WBC
Borrelia recurrentis on Peripheral Blood Smear
23M Somali refugee recently arrived w/severe abd pain, confusion and fever
recurrentis on Peripheral ... Blood Smear 23M ... with a blood smear ... #recurrentis #BloodSmear ... #microscopy #pathology
Babesiosis on Peripheral Smear
85 M from SE USA, hx splenectomy, IgG4 plasmacytic syndrome: F, chills, profound
Babesiosis on Peripheral ... hematuria, H/A. diagnosis ... post exchange: blood ... lysis: fever, anemia ... ARDS and DIC, case