Comparative study on influence of large platelet on platelet count difference of optical method and electrical impedance method / 国际检验医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To know how large platelets influnece the platelet count difference of the optical and impedance methods so as to provide the support for the reasonable application of optical method and effectively increasing the accuracy of platelet count.Methods 132 blood routine specimens with normal RBC parameters were anaylzed by both electrical impedance and optical methods with the Sysmex-XE5000 fully automativ hematology analyzer.The data were divided into the large platelet group and the normal platelet group according to the platlet-large cell ratio(P-LCR)results.The RBC and platelet parameters were compared be-tween the two groups with the unpaired t-test and the platelet count results detected by the optical and electrical impedance methods were compared within group with the paired t-test.Results The extremely significant differences of platelet parameters existed be-tween the two groups.The P-LCR,MPV,PDW and IPF % of the large platelet group were significantly higher than those of the normal platelet group,but the RBC parameters had no obvious difference.The significant difference of the platelet count also existed between the electrical impedance and optical methods in the large platelet group(P <0.05 ),the platelet count results detected by the electrical impedance method was on the low side,but the normal platelet group had no significant difference.Conclusion P-LCR increase is related with the increase of immature platelet.The electrical impadence method conducts the differentiation according to the granular size,which is easy to exclude the large platelel with larger volume and leads to reduce the platelet count results.There-fore,when P-LCR is increased,the optical method should be adopted in conducting the platelet count for avoiding the false reduce caused by the electrical impedance method.