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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
Hemolysis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

1) Environment
  - Fragmentation
  - MAHA: TTP, HUS, DIC, HELLP
Hemolysis - Differential ... Malaria, Babesiosis, Bartonella ... Peripheral Blood Smear ... Urobilinogen #Hemolysis
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
Oroya Fever
Hematologic disease caused by Bartonella bacilliformis
Restricted to the Andes highlands of Peru & Ecuador
B. bacilliformis:
disease caused by Bartonella ... Lutzomyia verrucarum Clinical ... lysis → severe hemolytic ... toxo reactivation Clinical ... phase: Peripheral smear
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
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
Plasmodium vivax on peripheral smear
A college student presents w/ headache, fever, chills. Returned 2 days ago
on peripheral smear ... size amoeboid trophozoite ... malaria #peripheral #smear ... #blood #clinical
Codocytes (Target cells) - Two target cells are seen in the left photo and one in
associated with hemolytic ... #Clinical #Path ... BloodSmear #Blood #Smear