Open AccessRole of Absolute Reticulocyte Count in Evaluation of Pancytopenia- A Hospital Based Study
Author(s) -
Padma Priya
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2014/8949.4704
Subject(s) - pancytopenia , medicine , reticulocyte , bone marrow , blood count , pediatrics , work up , surgery , biochemistry , chemistry , messenger rna , gene
Pancytopenia is a common hematological entity encountered in our laboratory practice. Evaluating the causes of pancytopenia is essential for the diagnostic as well as therapeutic management of the patients. Absolute Reticulocyte count (ARC) plays a pivotal role in identifying the cause of pancytopenia in most of the cases but it has grossly been overlooked. Hence, we attempted to identify the significance of ARC as a deciding parameter in evaluating the causes of pancytopenia.