INTRODUCTION The clinical presentation of eosinophilic myocarditis may vary from asymptomatic to the manifestation of severe symptoms, including cardiac tamponade and arrhythmias. In pregnant patients with this condition, drugs must be used cautiously up to approximately the 4th month of pregnancy because drug use should be limited during the period of fetal organogenesis. CASE PRESENTATION A...

Background: Neonatal sepsis is one of the common causes neonatal mortality. Blood culture gold standard procedure to confirm sepsis. However, rapid rate disease progression makes its timely diagnosis and prompt management very crucial before availability culture. The study aimed determine significance complete blood count parameters including platelet indices in diagnosing Materials Methods: Th...

Surgical operations and anaesthesia have been shown to cause a variety of immunological disturbances in patients. The implications of these observations are that host defenses may be compromised by surgical and anaesthesia procedures. Study participants of American Society of Anaesthiologists (ASA) physical status I or II undergoing surgery under general anaesthesia with endotracheal intubation...

INTRODUCTION AND METHODS A bone marrow examination had been requested by the referring clinician in over half of the 250 patients referred to the haematology clinic at Konfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) between 1988 and 1998 for investigations for various haematological disorders. Although a full blood count and a peripheral blood film can go a long way to resolve some of these diagnostic ch...

Introduction: Studies have shown that insufficient recovery between sessions causes immune suppression. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of repeated bouts resistance and endurance exercise on blood leukocytes, lymphocytes, neutrophils, monocytes count and plasma cortisol levels in athlete girls. Materials and methods: 9 athlete girls (ages, 20-25 years), participated i...

An 11-year-old American boy was staying with his family in Indonesia. He presented with a 5-month history of recurrent bruises and ecchymosis. A clinical diagnosis of acquired platelet dysfunction with eosinophilia was made when his full blood counts showed hypereosinophilia (7.4×10(9)/L) with normal platelet count and gray platelets under the microscope. The diagnosis was supported by abnormal...

A 56-year-old man presented with fevers up to 40°C and acute pain in the left upper quadrant. Full blood count was normal and biochemical tests revealed increased serum globulin. Abdominal ultrasound revealed hepatomegaly and splenomegaly with multiple enlarged lymph nodes in the neck, axilla, and inguinal regions. The bone marrow smear was negative. Splenectomy was performed and the pathology ...

T. M., an 11-month-old boy, born at full term weighing 3,460 g. His parents are healthy but consanguineous. He is an only child. Mother's pregnancy and delivery were uneventful. He was reared on a full cream dried milk. At the age of about 3 months he began to complain of occasional bouts of fever, vomiting, irritability, thirst, and profuse sweating on the head. Since 9 months of his life he h...

BACKGROUND Blood hyperviscosity has been acknowledged to be a complicating factor in polycythaemia and hyperproteinaemia. Hyperleucocytosis has also been implicated in hyperviscosity and may be a basis for therapeutic leukapheresis. AIMS This issue in the series seeks to determine the association and correlation between whole blood viscosity and white blood cell count (WBCC), with a view to a...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effect of preeclampsia on the cord blood and maternal NRBC count and to correlate NRBC count and neonatal outcome in preeclampsia and control groups. STUDY DESIGN This is a prospective case control observational study. PATIENTS AND METHODS Maternal and cord blood NRBC counts were studied in 50 preeclamptic women and 50 healthy pregnant women. Using automated cell ...