Idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura (ITP) is an autoimmune disorder characterized by isolated thrombocytopenia and mucocutaneous bleeding. The former has a primary role in the diagnosis and treatment of ITP. One of the leading causes of miscounted platelets in patients who suffer from ITP is giant platelets which may indicate factitiously a severe false thrombocytopenia. Here, a case of macroth...

OBJECTIVE This retrospective study was conducted to determine the incidence of various complications of Plasmodium vivax malaria based on review of case records. METHODS The case records of all confirmed cases of malaria over the period of one year (September 2005-August 2006) were studied. Complete blood count, peripheral blood findings, liver and kidney functions were reviewed. The results ...

Parasitological diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) by splenic smear is highly sensitive, but it is associated with the risk of severe hemorrhage. In this study, the diagnosis of VL using quantitative PCR (qPCR) in peripheral blood was evaluated in 100 patients with VL. Blood parasitemia ranged from 5 to 93,688 leishmania parasite genomes/ml of blood and positively correlated with splenic ...

Introduction: Morphologically abnormal blood cells in peripheral of a person reflect underlying pathological condition affecting formation, function, and lifespan these cells. A properly identified morphological defect is important to manage anemia, leukemia other disorders blood. This study aimed assess magnitude severity abnormality patients with complete count public hospitals found southern...

The field of neural networks has seen significant advances in recent years with the development deep and convolutional networks. Although many current works address real-valued models, studies reveal that hypercomplex-valued parameters can better capture, generalize, represent complexity multidimensional data. This paper explores quaternion-valued network application for a pattern recognition t...

A 9-year-old boy was diagnosed with stage III ALK-positive anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) with no evidence of bone marrow and central nervous system disease. Seven months later he had a normocytic anemia (hemoglobin 79 g/L), severe thrombocytopenia (platelets 15 109/L), and leukocytosis (white blood cell count 50.8 109/L). The automated differential showed neutrophils 28.5 109/L, monocyt...

background lichen planus is a disease with unknown etiology that affects the skin and the mucous membranes. immune dysregulation in the pathogenesis of oral lichen planus (olp) is well-known phenomenon. objectives in this study, we compared the levels of the peripheral blood t lymphocytes between patients with olp and control group. patients and methods in this study, 32 and 16 patients respect...

Background. FISH is a molecular cytogenetic technique enabling rapid detection of genetic abnormalities. Facilities that can run fresh/wet samples for molecular diagnosis and monitoring of neoplastic disorders are not readily available in Ghana and other neighbouring countries. This study aims to demonstrate that interphase FISH can successfully be applied to archival methanol-fixed bone marrow...