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| Year : 2022 | Volume
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| Issue : 3 | Page : 124-126 |
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Peripheral blood smear findings in COVID infection - A review article
Gunvanti B Rathod1, Pragnesh B Parmar2, Rashmi Kundapur3
1 Department of Pathology and Lab Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
2 Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
3 Department of Community and Family Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Correspondence Address:
Pragnesh B Parmar
Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bibinagar, Hyderabad, Telangana
India
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
DOI: 10.4103/DYPJ.DYPJ_31_21
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Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) infection caused worldwide morbidity and mortality with complications and still, it is going on. After the Spanish flu, no other illness has obtained such a heavy toll on the human population such as the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The most common symptoms of COVID-19 infection were fever, cough, dyspnea, expectoration, headache, myalgia, or fatigue and gastrointestinal symptoms. Complete blood count parameters with morphological findings can help a pathologist to alert the physician of future disease progression. Collective findings of various articles were noted down and crux of it was presented here. Lymphocytopenia, neutrophilia, eosinopenia were the common findings with morphological abnormality in lymphocytes and neutrophils in COVID-19 infection. To reach a definite conclusion regarding the specificity and the reliability of these viral cytopathic effects in the peripheral smear, more research is required in this field. |
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