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Here is something interesting found on a CellaVision DM96 in San Diego, CA:

A 30 year old male walked into ER with fever and lethargy.

The patient details:

• WBC 48.6
• PLT 83
• HGB 10.8
• HCT 31.8

After running the man’s blood smear on the CellaVision DM96 the laboratory also reported 4 NRBC’s, 1 Plasma Cell and 60% Blast Cells.

What do you think about the man’s condition?

Here is another case from Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark. Margit Grome, Biomedical Laboratory Scientist, and her colleague Lennarth Friis-Hansen M.D., give you the details:

A woman, age 32 was hospitalized at the department of Infectious Diseases.
A CSF was collected and sent to the lab.
The results were:

• Erythrocytes: 2280 x 106/l
• Leukocytes:    339 x 106/l
• Glucose:  0,8 mmol/l    (ref; 2,2 – 3,9)
• Protein:  1,68 g/l         (ref: 0,15 – 0,50)

A Cytospin-smear was prepared and MGG-stained. Differential count was performed using the CellaVision Body Fluid Application and the CellaVision DM96.

The cells looked like this:

The analysis showed:

• 50 %  Neutrophils
• 16 %  Lymphocytes
• 0,5 % Eosinophil
• 22 %  Monocytes/macrophages

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