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Reticulocyte count
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measure of effective erythropoiesis
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You must correct Reticulocyte count for the degree of anemia. What is the equation?
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Corrected reticulocyte count = Hct/45 * reticulocyte count
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A normal (corrected) reticulocyte count?
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greater than or equal to 3% = good BM response
less than 3% = poor response. |
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Polychromasia
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younger rbc than reticulocytes. If seen in peripheral blood than the BM is really pushing out these cells.
takes 2-3 days to become mature rbc |
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Polychromatic RBC also have RNA filaments so will be included in the reticulocyte count.
How do you correct for this? |
you divide the corrected reticulocyte count by 2.
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