Usefulness of sequential automated analysis of fragmented red blood cells for the differential diagnosis of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura-hemolytic uremic syndrome following allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation

Laboratory Hematology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 131-136

  Imoto, Shion ^a,b   Murayama, Tohru ^b   Nagai, Kenichi ^c   Hirabayashi, Norio ^d   Tanaka, Chiaki ^e   Misawa, Mahito ^f   Kawasaki, Keiichiro ^g   Mizuno, Ishikazu ^b   Koizumi, Tamio ^b   Kajimoto, Kazuyoshi ^b   Takahashi, Takayuki ^c   Hara, Hiroshi ^f   Kumagai, Shunichi ^h   Saigo, Katsuyasu ^h  

^a Japanese Red Cross Society   (Japan)

^b HYOGO MEDICAL CENTER FOR ADULTS   (Japan)

^c KOBE CITY MEDICAL CENTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d JAPANESE RED CROSS NAGOYA FIRST HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^e SYSMEX CORPORATION   (Japan)

^f HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^g KOBE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^h KOBE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation; Automated hematology analyzer; RBC fragmentation; Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpurahemolytic urenic syndrome

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISOLONE; TACROLIMUS;

ACUTE GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; AUTOANALYZER; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHILD; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE MARKER; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUTOMATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HEMOLYSIS; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PURPURA, THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 22144440131     PISSN: 10802924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1532/LH96.04065     Document Type: Article

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