We have used the complement-fixing antibody consumption ( CFAC ) test to detect small concentrations of IgG on red blood cells from patients with hemolytic anemias that are not thought to be caused by an immune mechanism. Although patients with hereditary spherocytosis, pyruvate kinase deficiency, and mechanical hemolytic anemias generally had normal concentrations of IgG bound to their red cel...

Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) is a systemic inflammatory disease associated with cardiovascular consequences. Red blood cell distribution width (RDW), mean platelet volume (MPV), and platelet distribution width (PDW) are recognized biomarkers of cardiovascular morbidity/mortality. Limited data is available on the association between these parameters and OSAS severity and the relations...

the pharmacokinetics of recombinant human erythropoietin (rhuepo) administered intravenously has been investigated in a group of five patients with chronic renal failure who were dialysis-dependent. the half-life of circulating erythropoietin decreased from 7.9±oa hr (mean ±so) at the beginning of treatment to 6.2±o.6 hr after 6 weeks and 5a±o.9 hr after 4 months of treatment. in spite of the s...

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...

Complete blood cell (CBC) counting has played a vital role in general medical examination. Common approaches, such as traditional manual and automated analyzers, were heavily influenced by the operation of professionals. In recent years, computer-aided object detection using deep learning algorithms been successfully applied many different visual tasks. this paper, we propose neural network-bas...

Introduction A wide range of instruments is now available for blood counting; in general they are based on either aperture impedance (Coulter, Toa) or light scattering (Bayer Technicon). The parameters measured by these instruments include: red blood cell count (RBC); white cell count (WCC); platelet count (Plt); red blood cell sizing (MCV/Hct); haemoglobin (Hb); red cell parameters (MCH, MCHC)...

Background: The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of opium addiction and cigarette smoking on the complete blood count (CBC).Methods: Eighty-six male subjects, including 31 opium-addicted cigarette smokers (OACS), 19 opium-addicted non-cigarette smokers (OANCS), 17 non-opium-addicted cigarette smokers (NOACS), and 19 non-opium-addicted non-cigarette smokers (NOANCS) parti...

BACKGROUND Thyroid hormones have a crucial role in metabolism and proliferation of blood cells. Thyroid dysfunction induces different effects on blood cells such as anemia, erythrocytosis leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, and in rare cases causes' pancytopenia. It also alter RBC indices include MCV, MCH, MCHC and RDW. Thus this study attempted to evaluate effect of hypo & hyperthyroidism on blood c...