INTRODUCTION Full blood count (FBC), one of the most frequently requested for laboratory investigations, is a simple, fast and cheap test and is a reliable indicator of health. Due to its usefulness in the assessment of health status of individuals, its parameters in cord blood, a major source of haemopoietic stem cell transplantation and an ideal source for laboratory investigations for newbor...

The Sysmex NE-8000 is a new, fully automated hematology analyzer capable of providing a five-part white blood cell differential count and identifying abnormal specimens. This instrument was evaluated on 5,000 consecutive blood specimens and compared to the Coulter S Plus-IV analyzer and manual differential cell counts to determine the efficacy of its five-cell differential and screening capabil...

We performed a study on 210 pregnant women to determine platelet reference ranges and to evaluate differences with a control group of 210 healthy non–pregnant women using the Sysmex SE-9500. During the second and third trimesters of pregnancy a decrease in platelet count (PLT) occurred but this was not statistically significant. However, during the same period statistically significant increase...

BACKGROUND Automated blood cell analyzers often read leukemic blasts as normal cells. In this study, we evaluated the 5-part differential patterns of blasts using automated analyzers to determine if they can differentiate among blast types. METHODS Blood samples containing 10% or more blasts were collected from patients with acute leukemia (N=175). The 5-part differential count was conducted ...

Background: Automatic Cell Counter devises make the CBC differential very easy and delivering the results in few second. However, the problem with this device is facing a flag requires a time-consuming microscopic review of the specimen which causes unacceptable wait times for patient as well as costs for laboratories. In this study, we calculated the validity of WBC d...

mastitis is one of the most serious and costly diseases affecting dairy cattle production. in the present study, effects of a lactoferrin gene polymorphism (intron 6) on milk somatic cell count (scc) and subclinical mastitis was investigated in 121 holstein dairy cattle. two alleles of a and b and two genotypes of aa and ab were found in an ecori recognized single nucleotide polymorphism in int...

a simple inexpensive con!nuous quality control method, by means of eight basic blood coun!ng parameters, obtained from automated hematology analyzers, using pa!ent samples, is described. a few samples with low, normal and high values were selected and introduced to the instrument early in the morning as the first count, the results of which are plo#ed on the appropriate chart as dots. the same ...

A 66-year-old woman, recently diagnosed with T cell prolymphocytic leukaemia (PLL) was admitted for cytotoxic therapy, with a potassium (K) of 5.5 mmol/L on admission as measured on a lithium heparin plasma sample (Beckman DxC800; Beckman Coulter Diagnostics, Fullerton, CA, USA). The sample was analysed within 70 min of collection. The white blood cell count (WBC) was 460=10/L (Sysmex XE5000; S...

INTRODUCTION Similar to other populations, full blood count reference (FBC) intervals in Malaysia are generally derived from non-Malaysian subjects. However, numerous studies have shown significant differences between and within populations supporting the need for population specific intervals. METHODS Two thousand seven hundred twenty five apparently healthy adults comprising all ages, both ...

Dear Editor The recently launched hematology autoanalyzer Sysmex XN2000 (Sysmex, Kobe, Japan) provides a new method (PLT-F method) for platelet counting based on a fluorescent RNA staining dye named oxazine [1, 2]. The main advantage of the XN2000’s PLT-F method over the former instrument XE-2100’s optical method (PLT-O method) is the ability to identify apoptotic white cells and not count them...