ABSTRACT
Introduction: Over the past few years, complete blood count, RBC histogram and peripheral blood smear have become the important diagnostic tools to diagnose various haematological conditions. Major public health burden worldwide is anemia with high prevalence in developing countries like India1. Red blood cell and histogram are indispensable for diagnosis and management of anemia2. The major diagnostic tool for work up of most commercial laboratories has been analysing the blood film routinely. The aim AIM: of the study is to compare between automated cell counter histogram and peripheral smear finding in diagnosis of anemia. Material and method: A prospective comparative study of RBC histogram and peripheral blood smear in diagnosis of anemia was done on 100 patients of HB<14gm%, over six month time span (June2022-Nov2022) in the central laboratory of Saraswathi Institute of Medical Sciences Hapur, (UP) India. This study included all the age groups. All cases of anemia that have undergone blood transfusion is excluded from this study. In Result: our study it was observed that on peripheral blood smear, the most common type of anemia was microcytic hypochromic anemia followed by normocytic normochromic anemia, when we compared with automated cell counter generated histogram most common type of anemia was normocytic normochromic followed by microcytic hypochromic anemia. In our study female population were more than males. The mean age was(32.4yr). Automated cell counters generated CBC histograms and peripheral blood smears Conclusion: plays a major role in diagnosis and management of red cell disorder. Our study observed that histogram patterns and their confirmation by peripheral blood smear along with clinical history gives accurate and confirmed diagnosis of various haematogical conditions. There is much improvement in accuracy and precision 3 reducing the subjective errors .