Two Different Cases of Abnormal Hemoglobin A1c

Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) is a stable compound, which is an important indicator for diagnosing glycemia, evaluating blood glucose control in patients with diabetes, and guiding the formulation of treatment plans. However, the detection of HbA1c is easily affected by many factors, resulting in a false increase or decrease, which affects the accuracy of test results.

In this paper, two abnormal HbA1c results were detected in the laboratory, which did not match the blood glucose detected at the same time. We adopted different detection systems to detect and proved that interference by different factors was observed in the results of glycosylated hemoglobin detection.

When the HbA1c results are abnormal or inconsistent with clinical symptoms, the inspection staff should find the problem in time and retest with different detection systems to confirm results or obtain the corrected results.

HbA1c has been included in the diagnostic criteria of diabetes, as a routine test in laboratory. The laboratory staff should understand the characteristics and influencing factors of the HbA1c detection method in our laboratory, carefully observe the HbA1c map and query the patient case data, and find and solve problems, so as to provide more accurate reports for the clinic and better serve the clinic.