Marta Morado, Alex Freire Sandes, Enrique Colado, Dolores Subirá, Paloma Isusi, María Soledad Noya, María Belén Vidriales, Amparo Sempere, José Ángel Díaz, Alfredo Minguela, Beatriz Álvarez, Cristina Serrano, Teresa Caballero, Mercedes Rey, Ana Pérez Corral, María Cristina Fernández Jiménez, Elena Magro, Angelina Lemes, Celina Benavente, Helena Bañas, Juana Merino, Celine Castejon, Olivier Gutierrez, Pilar Rabasa, Matheus Vescosi Gonçalves, Martin Perez-Andres, Alberto Orfao
BACKGROUND: Although consensus guidelines have been proposed in 2010 for the diagnostic screening of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) by flow cytometry (FCM), so far no study has investigated the efficiency of such medical indications in multicentric vs. reference laboratory settings. METHODS: Here we evaluate the efficiency of consensus medical indications for PNH testing in 3,938 peripheral blood samples submitted to FCM testing in 24 laboratories in Spain and one reference center in Brazil...
September 2017: Cytometry. Part B, Clinical Cytometry