HEME HELP
Posted By: ML on 2008-02-17
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Subject: HEME HELP
Patient has severe anemia. She is a Jevoah witness refuses transfusions
To try do a hemolytic work up and work up for s/l myoclinic_____opathy?
Thanks
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Review of the peripheral blood smear revealed s/l somonice on poikocytosis with lymphocytes and acanthocytes in some teardrop forms.
Can anyone decipher this dictation for me.
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