Open AccessPseudothrombocytopenia with multiple anticoagulant sample collection tubes
Author(s) -
Ferenc Kovács,
Marina Varga,
Zsolt Pataki,
Erzsebet Rigo
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
interventional medicine and applied science/interventional medicine and applied science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.195
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 2061-5094
pISSN - 2061-1617
DOI - 10.1556/1646.8.2016.4.4
Subject(s) - medicine , anticoagulant , ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid , heparin , blood collection , surgery , emergency medicine , chemistry , organic chemistry , chelation
The knowledge of pseudothrombocytopenia (PTCP) is important for the accuracy of a clinical assessment and for avoiding unnecessary treatment. An elderly patient was hospitalized with left lung pneumonia. Severe thrombocytopenia [platelet (PLT) number: 18 × 10 9 /L] without any clinical bleeding was found in ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid blood collection tube. PLT measurement was repeated in various anticoagulant [sodium citrate, lithium heparin, disodium oxalate, hirudin, and magnesium sulfate (Mg-sulfate)] sample collection tubes and all of them showed thrombocytopenia except with Mg-sulfate. To the best of our knowledge, PTCP with five anticoagulant sample collection tubes has not been reported earlier.