Erroneous Leukocyte Counts and Cold Agglutinins

Platelet cold agglutinins.

A “cold” platelet agglutinin is described reacts only at temperatures below 34#{176}C. which is present in plasma and serum, It agglutinates homologous and autois greater than 100,000 in molecular logous platelets but appears to have no weight, appears to be a protein of the imeffect on in vivo platelet function. It is munoglobulin type, is adsorbed by plateseen in patients with systemic diseas...

How I manage cold agglutinins.

From the Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Address reprint requests to: W. John Judd, FIBMS, MIBiol, Professor of Immunohematology, Department of Pathology, UH-2G332, University of Michigan Medical Center, 1500 East Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0054; e-mail: [email protected]. Received for publication November 2, 2005; accepted No...

Cold agglutinins accompanying Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection.

Automated differential leukocyte counts.

Automated differential counts have the advantage of precision, efficiency, safety, and economy. They could potentially serve effectively in 90 percent of patients with normal counts or in 75 percent of patients with anemia only (64 percent of the total in this study). Even patients with increased white blood cell counts and major population shifts (toward granulocytes or lymphocytes) could be f...

Cold Agglutinins. v. Deterioration of Cold Isohemagglutinins on Storage.