Open AccessA Fatty Blood Sample
Author(s) -
Khushbu Patel,
Mitchell G. Scott
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
clinical chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.705
H-Index - 218
eISSN - 1530-8561
pISSN - 0009-9147
DOI - 10.1373/clinchem.2014.234831
Subject(s) - sample (material) , chromatography , separator (oil production) , chemistry , physics , thermodynamics
A blood sample was drawn from a 70-year-old hypotensive man. The sample was sent to the laboratory in a plasma separator tube for a basic metabolic panel and troponin measurement. On arrival, the sample was centrifuged, resulting in the specimen shown in Fig. 1. The red material on top was fatty and viscous. …
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