Table 2. Potential clinical measures of hematological parameters analyzers (adapted by Thomas Pierre and Michael Bernimoulin [15]).
Blood Cells | Parameters | Clinical Measures |
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Red blood cells | ||
% hypochromic red blood cells | Assessment of iron-restricted erythropoiesis | |
Low hemoglobin density | Assessment of iron-restricted erythropoiesis | |
Red cell distribution width | Anisocytosis | |
Immature reticulocyte fraction | % Immature erythrocytes | |
Reticulocyte hemoglobin content | Iron deficiency anemia | |
Nucleated red blood cells | Bleeding disorders, hypoxemia | |
Schistocytes | Hemolytic anemia | |
White blood cells | ||
Immature granulocyte | Infections | |
White cell volume | Infections | |
High fluorescent lymphocytes |
Atypical lymphocytes | |
Platelets | ||
Immature platelet fraction |
% immature platelet and thrombocytopenia | |
Platelet distribution width | thrombocytopenia | |
Mean platelet volume | Platelet activation and thrombocytopenia | |
Large cell ratio | Bleeding disorders and thrombocytopenia | |
Platelet dry mass | Histogram of platelet | |
Plateletcrit | Platelet activation |