The nice people at Lablogatory sent a
rather interesting case study on cold agglutinins today. You can read it by
clicking here.
It illustrates the importance of a high
MCHC, but never forget that the MCHC might be high in absolute terms, or
relative to what it had been previously.
All of which begs the question should we
be running blood counts in a lower temperature than that which we normally do
to pick these up, or should we be running them in a higher temperate so that
this isn’t an issue (assuming that the condition would be picked up on
clinical grounds).
And here’s a tip – when you warm your
samples to run them warmed, don’t use the analyser directly underneath the air
conditioning’s cold air blower. Not that I ever got told to shut up for
pointing that out ten years ago…
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