Spurious automated red cell values in warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia
Related Experiment Videos
American Journal of Hematology
|January 1, 1984
Two patients with warm autoantibodies to their red cells had a mean cell volume artifactually elevated by red cell agglutination. Red cell size distribution histograms directly showed doublets and triplets of normal-size red cells. This phenomenon is similar to the spurious macrocytosis previously reported due to cold agglutinins, but was not reversible by warming.
Two patients with warm autoantibodies to their red cells had a mean cell volume artifactually elevated by red cell agglutination. Red cell size distribution histograms directly showed doublets and triplets of normal-size red cells. This phenomenon is similar to the spurious macrocytosis previously reported due to cold agglutinins, but was not reversible by warming.