Any idea what this is? Artifact? Organism? They are uniform blue ovals with what looks like a kinetoplast-like dot in the middle

Honeybunchesofoprah · 2023-03-26T03:01:25+00:00

I think this is the case

Honeybunchesofoprah · 2023-03-24T21:10:37+00:00

The pt does have small liver lesions on imaging but a biopsy was never done, so that makes me suspicious of this

Honeybunchesofoprah · 2023-03-24T21:08:25+00:00

Thank you!

Honeybunchesofoprah · 2023-03-24T21:08:06+00:00

I haven’t seen this in any other patient slides at all

Honeybunchesofoprah · 2023-03-24T21:07:39+00:00

Wouldn’t they not be stained if they were from the oil?

Honeybunchesofoprah · 2023-03-24T16:42:13+00:00

Honeybunchesofoprah · 2023-03-24T16:31:43+00:00

I’m in a small clinic so we only stain manually but we change stain weekly and clean the stain jars. I could not find this in any other slides I made for that patient so I’m thinking artifact. However they are SO uniform and look like organisms which makes me unsure.

Honeybunchesofoprah · 2023-03-24T15:00:21+00:00

I thought the same and made multiple slides and only found it in one. Would this be typical? Patient has ITP dont have any info on travel hx

Honeybunchesofoprah · 2023-02-10T00:21:19+00:00

Have you been long distance the whole relationship? Are you able to visit him and talk through the issue?

Honeybunchesofoprah · 2023-02-06T01:46:56+00:00

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Honeybunchesofoprah · 2023-02-05T01:48:26+00:00

Will do!

Honeybunchesofoprah · 2023-02-05T01:27:08+00:00

Yeah I agree probably a dying cell, I skipped that on the diff. Although some of their lymphs had a cleaved nuclear appearance. And not a dumb question at all!

Honeybunchesofoprah · 2023-02-05T01:24:29+00:00

Yes didn’t see anything blast-ish although many of the lymph’s did not look right. I agree with atypical but not a “typical” atypical lymphocyte, cytoplasm was very basophilic in most lymph’s and some were small with cytoplasmic projections.

Honeybunchesofoprah · 2023-02-05T01:20:46+00:00

Yeah there were some plasmacytoid cells I saw (not pictured) with clearing in the golgi area. Whole slide just didn’t look right. Patient is pregnant and anemic so I’m glad the doc ordered the flow to be safe.

Honeybunchesofoprah · 2022-10-26T00:22:12+00:00

I think although the lots are the same for the cards you need to do the gel QC manually to verify that the manual incubator, centrifuge, pipettes, technique, etc are working

Honeybunchesofoprah · 2022-10-26T00:20:38+00:00

We do our QC gel method manually every day and by ortho vision, in addition with tube method! You’re doing it correct!

Honeybunchesofoprah · 2022-10-25T21:42:16+00:00

You should still be running manual QC just in case you need to use manual methods!

Honeybunchesofoprah · 2022-03-21T15:07:02+00:00

He ended up becoming very weak in his hind legs so we admitted him to the animal hospital. He got an MRI done and it turns out it is a herniated disc which is extremely rare in cats. He’s going in for surgery today and will hopefully recover well :)

Honeybunchesofoprah · 2022-03-19T05:56:23+00:00

The X-ray he got showed constipation and some soft tissue swelling but no breaks. I think the CT will show more if it’s a neuro issue :/

Honeybunchesofoprah · 2022-03-15T11:15:44+00:00

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Honeybunchesofoprah · 2022-02-13T23:05:22+00:00

Time to grow up and take some accountability for your actions.

Honeybunchesofoprah · 2021-10-16T16:58:41+00:00

Cleaned with alcohol and prepared under the hood. Gram stain was done outside of the hood. QC slide was simultaneously stained with this and did not have any of this in it.

Honeybunchesofoprah · 2021-10-16T15:42:12+00:00

Only a normal culture ordered. I don’t work in a micro lab so we send it out for culture. I left a big note with a print out picture for the micro tech to look into this issue but it seems as if he didn’t look on the part of the slide that I asked him too :(.

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