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DOCN M9620681
TI Variability in absolute lymphocyte counts obtained by automated cell
counters.
DT 9602
AU Simson E; Groner W; Department of Pathology, Long Island Jewish Medical
Center, New; Hyde Park, NY 11040, USA.
SO Cytometry. 1995 Mar 15;22(1):26-34. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
MED/96090279
AB There is increasing interest in the absolute lymphocyte count. This is
partly driven by the need to obtain absolute values for lymphocyte
subsets such as absolute CD4+ counts in human immunodeficiency virus
(HIV)-infected persons. The absolute total lymphocyte count is usually
determined in the routine hematology laboratory on a separate sample
from the same patient specimen and then combined with percentage results
from flow cytometry to obtain the absolute value of the lymphocyte
subsets. We have studied analytic variability in the absolute lymphocyte
determination and compared it to the variability of the total white
blood count (WBC). In a series of 524 specimens, four different
automated methods were compared to each other and to the traditional eye
count differential. The automated methods were four widely used
automated cell counters (Technicon H*1, TOA NE8000, Coulter STKS, and
Abbott CD3000). The results indicate that analytic variability in the
absolute lymphocyte counts, due, primarily, to method variability, is
significant and is larger than the variability typically observed on
interlaboratory trials of relative CD4 counts. These method biases
cannot easily be reduced by calibration, since the cell classification
algorithms are built-in features of the various cell counters. Analytic
variability of the absolute lymphocyte counts was found to be 12.4%
compared with analytic variability of only 4.9% for total WBC counts on
the same samples. Our data suggest that more precise results would be
obtained if flow cytometry results expressed each phenotype as a
fraction of the leukocytes as well as total lymphocytes. Conversion to
absolute values could then be accomplished through determination of the
total WBC in the routine hematology laboratory.
DE Automation CD4 Lymphocyte Count/*INSTRUMENTATION Human
Reproducibility of Results Specimen Handling CLINICAL TRIAL JOURNAL
ARTICLE RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL
SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).