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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 ... #Smear #Analysis ... #hematology #microscopy ... interpretation #clinical
Peripheral blood findings in microangiopathic hemolytic anemia.  DIC is a clinical and laboratory diagnosis, not
Peripheral blood ... DIC is a clinical ... arrow) Peripheral smear ... #anemia #Hematology ... #Pathology #Smear
Spur-Cell Anemia- A 31-year-old man with a history of cirrhosis, recurrent hepatic encephalopathy, and anemia presented
smear showed numerous ... , a form of hemolytic ... inflexible and prone to hemolysis ... #NEJM #clinical ... #smear
Cold Agglutinin Disease

3 Types of Cold Sensitive Antibodies:
  1. Cold Agglutinins (CAD)
  2. Donath-Landsteiner
Viral Infection Clinical ... Immunoglobulin M (IgM) • Blood ... smear - RBC agglutination ... sensitize red blood ... #anemia #hematology
Autoagglutination should also be distinguished from “Rouleaux formation” wherein normal blood tends to form stacks on
wherein normal blood ... tends to form stacks ... #Clinical #Pathology ... #Blood #Smear # ... Rouleaux #Formation #Hematology
Leukemias Overview: ALL, CML, AML, APML, CLL

Acute leukemias > 20% blasts in the peripheral blood smear
smear or on bone ... - infiltrates (anemia ... • Peripheral smear ... more aggressive form ... #Leukemia #Hematology
Borrelia recurrentis on Peripheral Blood Smear
23M Somali refugee recently arrived w/severe abd pain, confusion and fever
Smear 23M Somali ... 12.5, WBC 14, Plt ... The table below ... BloodSmear #microscopy #pathology ... #clinical