MLS ASCPI RECALLS OCTOBER 2, 2017

1. CAUSE OF FALSE NEGATIVE ABO TYPING : POSITIVE DAT

2. DECREASED ERYTHROPOIETIN LEVEL: POLYCYTHEMIA VERA
3. A BLOOD SAMPLE FOR COAGULATION WAS COLLECTED. HOWEVER, UPON CHECKING
THE SPECIMEN, THE MLS FOUND OUT THAT THE PATIENT’S HCT IS 65%. WHAT TO DO?
RECOLLECT A NEW SAMPLE IN LESSER AMOUNT OF CITRATE.
4. LUPUS ANTICOAGULANT CAUSES: THROMBOSIS
5. CAT SCRATCH DISEASE, OXIDASE AND CATALASE NEGATIVE: BARTONELLA HENSELAE
6. ANTIBODY THAT DETERIORATES ON STORAGE: P ANTIBODY
7. ADRENAL CUSHING SYNDROME: INCREASE CORTISOL, DECREASE ACTH
8. HBA1C IS DEPENDENT UPON: RBC LIFE SPAN
9. NORMAL RBC COUNT, NORMAL PLATELET COUNT, 0.01% RETICS: PURE RED CELL
APLASIA
10. MONOCYTOSIS IS SEEN IN: TUBERCULOSIS
11. PINK COLONY ON MACCONKEY AGAR, LOA POSITIVE: ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE
12. MYCOPLASMA CANNOT BE TREATED WITH PENICILLIN BECAUSE: IT HAS NO CELL WALL
13. AUTOMATED INSTRUMENT HCT 33%, MANUAL 33.5%. WHAT SHOULD THE MLS DO
NEXT? CHECK FOR LIPEMIA
14. AUTOCLAVE STERILIZATION: 121C, 15 PSI, 15 MINS
15. PATIENT WITH PANCREATIC MASS: CA 19.9
16. DESCRIBE THE ANTIBODY IN THE CELL PANE (LEA)L: GLYCOLIPID ADSORBED FROM
PLASMA
17. HAIR PERFORATION TEST= TRICHOPHYTON METAGROPHYTE AND T. RUBRUM
18. FALSE INCREASE IN ESR: 8 HOUR DELAY IN SETUP
19. SPECIMEN TO DETECT FOR ROTAVIRUS : STOOL
20. SEEN IN RENAL BIOPSY AND PHARYNGITIS, SEQUELAE: GLOMERULONEPHRITIS: S.
PYOGENES
21. URINALYSIS RESULT WITH RENAL TUBULAR CELLS 25-30 IS INDICATIVE OF :RENAL
TUBULAR NECROSIS
22. TABLE OF BLOOD TYPING, FORWARD & REVERSE, WITH A MIXED FIELD REACTION ON
ANTI-B: BX SUBGROUP
23. PICTURE OF BLOOD SMEAR WITH BURR CELLS: UREMIA
24. PICTURE OF A BLOOD SMEAR FULL OF STOMATOCYTES: LIVER DISEASE
25. THE ENZYME RESPONSIBLE IN PROLONGED APNEA IS ANESTHESIZED BY
SUCCINYLCHOLINE. PSEUDOCHOLINESTERASE
26. COAGULATION RESULT OF A PATIENT THAT HAS UNDERGONE A GALLBLADDER SURGERY
PT IS NORMAL, APTT IS PROLONGED, THE FACTOR DEFICIENT IS FACTOR X11
27. FBS 120 MG/DL;OGTT 160 MG/DL: THESE RESULTS ARE INDICATIVE OF A PATIENT WITH
IMPAIRED DIABETIS MELLITUS
28. WHAT IS IN THE SALIVA OF A LE(A+B-) INDIVIDUAL? LEA
29. A COLD AGGLUTININ PICTURE. INFECTION ASSOCIATED WITH IT MYCOPLASMA
PNEUMONIAE
30. IMAGE OF COLD AGGLUTININS: COLD REACTING ANTIBODIES
 31. DURING A BLOOD DONATION, THE BLOOD STOPS AT 390 ML: WHAT TO DO? LABEL AS
PACKED RBC (LOW VOLUME UNIT)
32. PCO2 ELECTRODE MEASURES PH
33. CALIBRATION OF BLOOD GAS ANALYZERS:2 BUFFERS WITH KNOWN PH AND CONSTANT
TEMPERATURE
34. PHOTO OF COLD AGGLUTININ DISEASE
35. BILE ESCULIN + CATALASE - NO GROWTH @ 6.5% NACL – STREPTOCOCCUS BOVIS
36. PHARYNGITIS, SEEN IN RENAL BIOPSY: STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES
37. ORGANISM ISOLATED IN HEKTOEN AGAR TSI K/A, H2S (+), PAD (-), LYSINE
DECARBOXYLASE (-), UREA(+), CITRATE (+)  TECH REPORT AS NORMAL FLORA

IS 37 AHG CC
SC1 0 0 0 2+
SC2 +/- +/- 0 2+
ANSWER: ADD 4 DROPS OF SERUM
38. PATIENT DAT (4+), IAT (+), DID ELUATE AND THE RESULTS ARE DAT (2+) THEY AUTO
ABSORB SERUM AND KEEPS REACTING TO SCI1 & SC2 IN AHG, WHAT SHOULD YOU
DO? MAKE ANOTHER AUTOADSORPTION)
39. SAMPLE TAKEN FROM INDWELLING CATHETER, PATIENT ISN’T ON
ANTICOAGULANTS YET PT PTT & TT ARE WAY ELEVATED – DIC
40. SPECIMEN LEGIONELLA – URINE ANTIGEN
41. INCREASED CA AND NORMAL PTH – METASTATIC CARCINOMA
42. LOW SODIUM NORMAL OTHER ELECTROLYTES – REPEAT ION SELECTIVE ELECTRODE
43. CBC RESULT: ABOUT METHOD 1, METHOD 2 – LYSE RESISTANT IN HGB C
44. ABSENT TROPHOZOITE / MEROZOITE – PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM
45. 18.5 % RETICS – HEINZ BODY STAIN
46. ANTI A – 0; ANTI B- MF : BX SUBGROUP
47. POTASSIUM PERMANGANATE- QUENCHING AGENT
48. SENSITIVITY FORMULA : TP/TP+FN X 100
49. FLETCHER’S MEDIA- LEPTOSPIRA
50. A PATIENT HAD A SURGERY TO REMOVE A PROSTATE CANCER 12 MONTH AGO, THE
REGULAR PSA TEST SHOWED A LEVEL OF 14 NG/ML (N:<4 NG/ML) WHAT WILL BE
THE DIAGNOSIS? RECURRENCE OF THE DISEASE
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