Archiving of biological material collected in patients with acute attack of thrombotic microangiopathy
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 progressive disease, where initiation of treatment (e. g., plasmapheresis) before blood collection may affect laboratory results and complicate further differential diagnosis. Thrombotic microangiopathies belong to this group of diseases.
In this article, we present a procedure tested in clinical practice at the University Hospital Ostrava. Next, the procedure was presented and discussed with experts from other haematology centres.
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.