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Plasmodium Falciparum Blood Smear.
Key features suggesting Plasmodium falciparum:
- extreme parasitemia
- normocytic RBCs (vivax, ovale prefer big
Falciparum Blood Smear ... reticulocytes) - thin trophozoites ... rare in blood smears ... Falciparum #Blood #Smear ... #peripheral #clinical
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 ... Microangiopathic hemolytic ... Microspherocytes: Autoimmune hemolytic ... Peripheral #Blood #Smear ... interpretation #clinical
Post-splenectomy blood smear demonstrating Howell-Jolly bodies and target cells.

#Clinical #Pathology #BloodSmear #HowellJollyBodies #TargetCells #Splenectomy #Asplenic
Post-splenectomy blood smear ... #Clinical #Pathology ... #Splenectomy #Asplenic
Peripheral blood findings in microangiopathic hemolytic anemia.  DIC is a clinical and laboratory diagnosis, not
microangiopathic hemolytic ... DIC is a clinical ... Microangiopathic hemolytic ... arrow) Peripheral smear ... Hematology #Pathology #Smear
Pancytopenia - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
 • 12-13 g/dL,
 • ANC < 1800/uL,
 • platelet < 150,000/uL

Initial
acid, peripheral smear ... ↑ Destruction (hemolysis ... reticulated-plts) • Splenic
Dacrocytes (tear drop cells) 
Other poikilocytes resemble a pear or teardrop. The narrow, tapered end
may be
thalassemia, and some hemolytic ... #Clinical #Path ... BloodSmear #Blood #Smear
Howell-Jolly Body - On these Wright-stained peripheral blood smears the small dark spheres within red cells
peripheral blood smears ... in congenital asplenia ... can be found in hemolytic ... #Clinical #Path ... BloodSmear #Blood #Smear
Plasmodium falciparum trophozoites (and crenated red blood cells) - Blood Smear

A classic presentation of Plasmodium falciparum
Plasmodium falciparum trophozoites ... cells) - Blood Smear ... in a thin blood smear ... falciparum #Blood #Smear ... #peripheral #clinical
Spur-Cell Anemia- A 31-year-old man with a history of cirrhosis, recurrent hepatic encephalopathy, and anemia presented
peripheral-blood smear ... anemia, a form of hemolytic ... inflexible and prone to hemolysis ... #NEJM #clinical ... peripheral #blood #smear
Approach to Thrombocytosis - Elevated Platelet Count - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm

Peripheral Smear concerning for malignancy?
Peripheral Smear ... blood loss, Acute hemolysis ... period • Others: Asplenia