Hematology
Hematology Exercise: Erythrocyte Identification in Blood Smear
A diagnostic exercise in blood smear microscopy. Identify altered cells in a patient with hepatomegaly and jaundice. Erythrocyte morphology test.
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Hematology
Hematology
Cold Agglutination of Erythrocytes: Mechanism and Elimination
What are cold agglutinins, how do they cause red blood cell clumping, and how to eliminate agglutination by warming a blood tube to 37°C in the lab.
Hematology
Cold Agglutinin Disease: Sutimlimab Therapy
Results of C1s complement inhibitor sutimlimab in cold agglutinin disease: dynamics of hemoglobin, bilirubin, and reticulocytes.
Hematology
Erythrocyte Morphology in Active Erythropoiesis
Morphological features of erythroid cells in bone marrow aspirate: erythrocyte division, binucleated forms, mitoses, and a mature megakaryocyte.
Hematology
Paraneoplastic Hematologic Syndromes of Solid Tumors
Hematologic manifestations of solid tumors: mechanisms of erythrocytosis, leukocytosis, thrombocytosis, and coagulopathies, and laboratory diagnostic approaches.
Hematology
Erythrocytes in Native Pleural Fluid Smear
Microscopy of native pleural fluid smear: detection of anisocytosis, poikilocytosis, echinocytes, and schistocytes in an anemic patient.
Hematology
Avian Hematology: Flamingo Blood Cell Morphology
Morphological features of greater flamingo leukocytes and erythrocytes: differentiation of heterophils, eosinophils, and monocytes in avian blood smears.
Hematology
Megaloblasts and Dyserythropoiesis in Anemia During Pregnancy
Bone marrow morphology in severe mixed-origin anemia in a pregnant woman: megaloblasts, signs of dyserythropoiesis, and mitoses in the aspirate.
Hematology
Bone Marrow Cell Mitosis and Hematopoiesis Stages
Explore bone marrow cell division: blast proliferation, normoblast enucleation, megakaryocyte endomitosis, and the morphology of mitotic figures.
Hematology
Proerythroblast: Morphology of an Erythroid Precursor
Morphological features of proerythroblasts (pronormoblasts): size, cytoplasmic basophilia, chromatin structure, and differentiation in bone marrow.
Hematology
Bone Marrow Morphology in Anemia: Megakaryocyte Emperipolesis
Cytological picture of bone marrow aspirate in anemia: erythroid and megakaryocytic hyperplasia, emperipolesis, and binucleated normoblasts.
Hematology
Plasmacytoid Lymphocytes: Morphology and Scattergram
Explore the morphological features of plasmacytoid lymphocytes in blood smears and their characteristic appearance on hematology analyzer scattergrams.