Dr. Leontios Pappas (Medicine): An 80-year-old woman was admitted to this hospital because of pancytopenia and the identification of schistocytes on a peripheral-blood smear.

Schistocyte enumeration is a recurrent laboratory request after bone marrow transplantation (BMT). The presence of schistocytes in the peripheral blood (PB) is considered to be abnormal and ...

Estimation of percentage of schistocytes on blood films was performed at time of TA-TMA diagnosis by counting 200 red cells under high power magnification.