🔵 “Blue” macrocytes. 🔬Polychromatophilia is a phenomenon in which erythrocytes in a blood smear stain grayish-blue due to an increased content of residual RNA. This is usually associated with enhanced erythropoiesis and the release of young reticulocytes from the bone marrow. Reticulocytes are larger than mature erythrocytes. Their volume is higher, which makes them macrocytic. ❓What else unusual was found in the smear in photo №3? In what conditions is such a blood picture observed?
🙏 Material kindly provided by KDL biologist Yulia Guseva GBUZ Belorechenskaya Central District Hospital. Blood smears from different patients.
