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[Must we teach, today, the MCHC (Mean Corpuscular Haemoglobin Concentration)? (author's transl)]
La Semaine Des Hopitaux : Organe Fonde Par L'Association D'Enseignement Medical Des Hopitaux De Paris
|April 18, 1980
Abstract:
Automatic cell counters introduce a new interpretation of the MCHC. The automatic MCHC does not fall in cases of thalassemia or of iron deficiency, except in the severest; so it serves now little practical purpose. The manual MCHC continues to be a useful index of hypochromia, but does not reflect the true haemoglobin concentration in red cells, and it remains less and less in use.