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The unseen enemy: Why today matters in the fight against malaria
Malaria disproportionately affects children under five and pregnant women, especially in sub-Saharan...
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Haemoglobinopathies - The small details that make a big difference Webinar
Only Cells hosted another successful Webinar titled "Haemoglobinopathies - the small details that make...
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Cryoglobulins: A cold case in the blood
Cryoglobulins are abnormal antibodies (immunoglobulins) that precipitate or become insoluble at low...
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Leukaemic dawn (short poem)
dawn of unknown paths
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Healthcare Scientists: Advocates for excellence
What some might perceive as "difficult" or "stubborn" in healthcare scientists is, in reality, unwavering...
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Sickled crescents (short poem)
Red cells twist in crescent shape...
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Wavy wonders: Borrelia's appearance under the microscope
Borrelia's morphology is distinct; they appear as thin, helical (spiral-shaped) organisms
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Increased adhesion of blast cells in acute myeloid leukaemia
A notable feature of AML is the increased adhesiveness of these blast cells, leading them to adhere more...
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Stained with Love
In labs where life's frail secrets hide, And answers wait, deep inside,
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Winners and Losers
Who's in the right? Who's in the wrong? Who cares? We should focus on our own processes and not palm...
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TTP Diagnostics Webinar
Only Cells hosted an online webinar titled "TTP Diagnostics - Preventing a Fragmented Approach."
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Red cells: Drepanocytes
Drepanocytes or as they are commonly known, sickle cells...
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Candour
In the heat of the situation people say all sorts, but nothing prepared me for that nonchalant yet cowardly...
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O RhD Negative packed red blood cell unit
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"Hi, it's OIR. Could I start a code red please? We have a patient on the ward who's crashed and have...
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Red cells: Acanthocytes
Acanthocytes are red blood cells with irregular, spiky protrusions (spicules) on their surface.
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A blood film image from a patient with a PR bleed showing hypochromic cells
Red cells: Hypochromia
Refers to pale red cells
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Peripheral blood film showing blister cells in a patient with G6PD deficiency
Red cells: Blister (hemighost) cells
Blister cells are red blood cells that have a blister or bubble like appearance on their surface.
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A blood film image from a patient with Beta thalasseamia, showing dimorphic red cells
Red Cells: Dimorphism
The presence of two distinct population of red cells.
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Basophilic stippling on a peripheral blood film from a patient with aplastic anaemia
Red cells: Basophilic stippling
Basophilic stippling refers to the presence of evenly distributed inclusions within the erythrocytes...
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Dacrocytes (tear drop cells) on a blood film from a patient with myelofibrosis
Red Cells: Dacrocytes
Peripheral blood film from a patient with myelofibrosis, showing dacrocytes (teardrop cells). Dacrocytes...
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Peripheral blood film showing spherocytes in a patient with HS
Red cells: Spherocytes
Spherocytes, unlike normal red cells are spherical in shape.
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Peripheral blood film showing elliptocytes in a patient with a hereditary elliptocytosis
Red cells: Elliptocytes
Elliptocytes are elongated red cells.
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Morphology Monday (008) - Plasma cell leukaemia
Plasma cell in a patient with plasma cell leukaemia. I had the opportunity to sit and discuss this peripheral...
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Red Cells: Howell-Jolly bodies
Howell-Jolly bodies are small, round inclusions found within red blood cells.
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Morphology Monday (007) - Hypergranular APML
Images from a patient with APML.
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Red cells: Target cells
Target cells have a characteristic target or bullseye appearance.
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Morphology Monday (006) - P. falciparum
Images showing a Plasmodium Falciparum infection
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Morphology Monday (005) - Smear cells
Smear cells aren't confirmatory for CLL.
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Morphology Monday (004) - May–Hegglin anomaly
Characterised by large platelets and grey spindle like inclusions within neutrophils.
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Hypogranular APML
Morphology Monday (003) - Microgranular APML
...showing characteristic bilobed cells and inclusions.
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Haemolytic anaemia
Red cells: Polychromasia
Red cells with varying colours.
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Anisopoikilocytosis
Red cells: Anisopoikilocytosis
Cells of different sizes and shapes.
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Bilobed neutrophils
Morphology Monday (002) - Bilobed neutrophils
...two neutrophils with a reduced number of nuclear lobes...
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Fibrin strands
Morphology Monday (001) - Fibrin strands
Fibrin strands on a peripheral blood film.
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