Platelet larceny: spurious hypoxaemia due to extreme thrombocytosis
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Platelet larceny: spurious hypoxaemia due to extreme thrombocytosis.
Rapid oxygen consumption by markedly increased numbers of hypermetabolic leukocytes in leukaemic patients resulting in the apparent diagnosis of hypoxaemia on arterial blood gas analyses is termed leukocyte larceny. In the present report, a case of polycythaemia vera, extreme thrombocytosis, normal leukocyte counts and arterial hypoxaemia in the absence of clinical, radiological or physiologica...
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Corresponding author: Hyun-Hea Kim, M.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, CHA Gumi Medical Center, CHA University, 855, Hyeonggok-dong, Gumi 730-728, Korea. Tel: 82-54-450-9684, Fax: 82-54-450-9990, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Respiratory Journal
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0903-1936,1399-3003
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00039607