4/ Repeating CBC in either sodium citrate or heparin tube will prevent this. Pseudothrombocytopenia should first be ruled out in a patient with asymptomatic thrombocytopenia. Here's a case report from @BMC_series to illustrate this! https://t.co/xRMI38u0F
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As an added bonus, my vet emailed me her "completely normal" CBC that showed a platelet count of 13. Turns out there was a lot of platelet clumping causing a psuedothrombocytopenia that they apparently decided wasn't worth noting in the first email, ha. ht
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Case study IDs typical platelet, WBC histograms of EDTA-dependent pseudothrombocytopenia http://t.co/KLqQR7ZiCd
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RT @CLN_AACC: Case study IDs typical platelet, WBC histograms of EDTA-dependent pseudothrombocytopenia http://t.co/Usdk07HATd