The rate of detection by peripheral blood smear ranges from 5 to 50% in pregnancy. [24,25] Among a cohort of pregnant women in Mozambique diagnosed with P. falciparum infection by real-time PCR, ...

Peripheral smear blood tests are part of a battery of different assessments that can be used to identify blood diseases. But these days, they’re not the first-line option, in most cases.

Dr. Leontios Pappas (Medicine): An 80-year-old woman was admitted to this hospital because of pancytopenia and the identification of schistocytes on a peripheral-blood smear. Six weeks before ...

The peripheral-blood smear shows occasional fragmented and polychromatophilic red cells. The serum creatinine level is 1.1 mg per deciliter (97.2 μmol per liter), ...

Your doctor will order blood tests to check for anemia and enlarged red blood cells. If your complete blood count indicates anemia, your doctor will do another test known as a peripheral blood smear .

FIGURE 1. Platelet clumping (blue) was seen on peripheral blood smear. A misdiagnosis would have led to unnecessary tests and treatment. Ms. J, age 55 years, was referred to hematology for ...

To get to that point, Hayut needed to build his own machine – a high-speed scanner that digitizes the blood-smeared slides so that a computer can do the analysis. Scopio’s X100 Full Field PBS (for ...

Blood smears showed bacteria that were similar to another type, E. chaffeensis, but further testing proved them to be distinct species. ... A Wright- or Giemsa-stained peripheral blood smear.