Morphology Monday | Case MM250908
This week’s case comes from a 29-year-old male who returned from a recent trip abroad. He presented to the emergency department with fever, chills, sweats, headache, and general malaise.
This week’s case comes from a 29-year-old male who returned from a recent trip abroad. He presented to the emergency department with fever, chills, sweats, headache, and general malaise.
The blood film demonstrated striking red cell fragmentation with marked anisopoikilocytosis, microspherocytes, and budding cells, giving an appearance reminiscent of thermal burns – a hallmark of Hereditary Pyropoikilocytosis (HPP).
This week’s Morphology Monday comes from a 6 year old child who has been experiencing chronic anaemia with intermittent jaundice.
The blood film showed red cell fragmentation with schistocytes and occasional microspherocytes. ADAMTS13 activity was normal, helping to exclude thrombotic thrombocytopaenic purpura (TTP).
This week’s case comes from a 35-year-old male who presented with fatigue and pallor, easy bruising, and reduced urine output.
In this final session of the ABID webinar series, we’ll explore some of the more unusual and challenging aspects of antibody identification
Following on from the foundations laid in Session 1: Tools of the Trade, this session focused on applying key antibody identification techniques through real-world case discussions.
This week’s case comes from a 69 year old male presenting with a increasing fatigue and back back over the past several months. He has also experiences recurrent infections recently.
This week’s Morphology Monday case features a patient with known Sickle Cell Disease (SCD)
Registration is now open for Session 2 of the Antibody Identification (ABID) Webinar Series: Putting it into practice