Archivace biologického materiálu nabraného u pacientů s akutní atakou trombotické mikroangiopatie

Abstract

Coordinated blood collection, pre-analytical processing and storage of biological material at any time of the day or night is particularly important in patients with rapidly progressing disease, where initiation of treatment (e.g., plasmapheresis) prior to blood collection may affect laboratory results and complicate further differential diagnosis. Thrombotic microangiopathies clearly belong to this group. In this article we present a procedure tested in clinical practice in the conditions of the University Hospital Ostrava. In the second step, the procedure was presented and discussed with experts from other haematology centers. The result of this discussion was the creation of a universal request form for the processing and archiving of blood samples, which may contribute to the standardization of the procedure in other medical institutions.