Septicaemia and sepsis are both blood infections - but do you know the difference and how to spot when you've got one? Although similar, there are key differences between septicaemia and sepsis.

Scopio is an imaging company looking to re-imagine a common blood test called a peripheral blood smear. In essence, that’s a test where a doctor, usually looking to understand an anomaly in a ...

Even if the precise diagnosis of AITL is achieved after biopsy and histological examination of one of the enlarged lymph nodes, the careful cytological analysis of peripheral blood smears could ...

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 ...

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 ...

Typically, coagulation studies, testing for HIV, hepatitis C, and drug-induced thrombocytopenia, as well as a peripheral blood smear are considered essential investigations in differential diagnosis.

Their work, published today in Molecular Cell, shows how cancer cells may be taking advantage of this process, and opens new possibilities for fighting back, not only against cancer but also against ...

These misshapen red blood cells can be seen on a peripheral blood smear. This involves putting a sample of your blood on a glass slide, staining it, and looking at it under a microscope.