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Objective To investigate the value of the combined test in the diagnosis of thalassemia and iron deficiency anemia (IDA) .Methods From August 2013 to February 2015 ,36 patients with thalassemia ,34 patients with IDA ,and 30 healthy people who had undergone physical examination were enrolled in the study .The blood samples of those people were tested ,and items of the combined test included content of red blood cell volume(MCA) ,red blood cell volume distribution width(RDW) ,hemoglobin(Hb) electrophoresis and red blood cell(RBC) .Results The patients with IDA or thalassemia had reduced MCA and RBC fragile ,pa‐tients with IDA had increased RDW ,and patients with thalassemia had increased HbA2 ,compared with the control group the differ‐ences were all statistically significant(P 0 .05) .The sensitivities of MCV ,Hb electrophoresis ,RBC fragility to thalassemia were 97 .2% ,88 .9% ,77 .8% respectively ,and the specificity were 80 .0% ,90 .0% ,83 .3% respectively .The sensitivities of MCA test combined with Hb electrophoresis ,hemoglobin electrophoresis combined with RBC brittleness test and parallel combined test of MCA ,Hb electrophoresis and RBC brittleness to thalassemia were 100 .0% ,97 .2% ,100 .0% respectively ,which were significantly higher than those of single tests ;the specificities were 96 .7% ,100 .0% and 100 .0% respectively ,which were significantly higher than those of single tests ;the differences were statistically significant(P<0 .05) .Conclusion The application of hematological pa‐rameters ,Hb and RBC in the diagnosis of anemia and IDA could significantly improve the diagnostic accuracy ,and it is worthy of popularization and application .
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Objective To discuss clinical significance of the neutrophil alkaline phosphatase(NAP) activity in polycythemia pa‐tients .Methods 35 cases of patients with secondary polycythemia(secondary group) and 22 patients with polycythemia vera (poly‐cythemia vera group) were enrolled in the study ,whose peripheral blood smears were stained by using chemical method and the pos‐itive rate and scores of NAP were assessed .In addition to that ,30 cases of healthy people who had underwent physical examination were recruited as control group .Results NAP positive rate and scores of the polycythemia vera group were significantly higher than those of secondary and control group(P0 .05) .Conclusion NAP score is a good methord to diagnose polycythemia ,which could facilitate rapid ,accurate diagno‐sis and be used as auxiliary indicators in the differential diagnosis of polycythemia .