BACKGROUND Prechemotherapy absolute neutrophil count (ANC) cutoffs are arbitrary and vary across institutions and clinicians. Similarly, subjective guidelines are utilized for the administration of prophylactic antibiotics in neutropenic dogs. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the impact of various ANC cutoffs on chemotherapy administration in dogs with lymphoma treated with CHOP chemotherapy and to det...

Objectives Use of point-of-care testing is increasing, however many haematology analysers can only determine granulocyte count without further differentiation into neutrophils, eosinophils and basophils. Since the diagnosis of life-threatening neutropenia in cancer patients requires a distinct neutrophil count, this study aimed to determine the comparative performance between the neutrophil and...

BACKGROUND Blood viscosity is correlated with cerebral blood flow and cardiac output, and increased viscosity may increase the risk of thrombosis or thromboembolic events. The relationship between hematocrit and viscosity is well-known, however, the relationships between white blood cell (WBC) or platelet count and viscosity were not fully studied. The aim of the present study was to determine ...

Before any interventional radiology procedure, including biopsy and abscess drainage, patients should have testing to determine the complete blood count (including platelet count), activated partial thromboplastin time and international normalized ratio. The tests should be done as close to the time of the procedure as possible. For stable patients, the timing of blood tests should be within on...

BACKGROUND Reference ranges are available for different blood cell counts. These ranges treat each cell type independently and do not consider possible correlations between cell types. METHODS Participants were identified from the Community Health Index as survivors of the 1947 Scottish Mental Survey, all born in 1936, who were resident in Lothian (potential n = 3,810) and invited to particip...

AIM To investigate the association between obesity and anemia/hemoglobin levels. MATERIAL & METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted at Khartoum, Sudan. Obstetric data were collected from 388 pregnant women at mean (standard deviation) of 10.5 (3.1) weeks of gestation using questionnaires. Weight and height were determined, and BMI was calculated. RESULTS There were 15 (4.4%), 95 (28.1...