Often inexplicable gingival bruising or bleeding, and there is a phenomenon of low platelets. I'm afraid it's caused by hematopoietic diseases such as blood tumor and bone marrow. Do you have to take bone marrow from a slight bone injury to make a diagnosis? The domestic research team has developed a new "reticular platelet detection method". As long as blood is drawn as usual, the results can be obtained in 30 minutes, which is fast and convenient.

Dr. Lin Zengxi explained that reticular platelets are immature cells of platelets and are mainly used to evaluate the function of bone marrow in making platelets. (Image courtesy of Wurilin New Hospital) What is "Reticular Platelet"?

Platelets are cells without "nuclei", which can help the body stop bleeding and heal wounds. Reticular platelets are immature cells of platelets, which are mainly used to evaluate the function of bone marrow to make platelets. When there are "insufficient" or "excessive" platelets, it is an abnormal situation. Low platelets can easily lead to body bleeding, such as gingival bleeding, cyanosis, collision with purple spots, long physiological period of women and more menstrual flow, which will lead to anemia and enlarged heart for a long time. Be sure to go to the hematology department for further examination to understand the cause of thrombocytopenia.

Is thrombocytopenia caused by abnormal bone marrow hematopoiesis? A new examination method without extracting bone marrow

Lin Zengxi, director of hematology department of Wurilin New Hospital, said that patients with thrombocytopenia of unknown origin would arrange bone marrow puncture to observe whether the function of bone marrow to make red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets is normal, but now the examination of "reticular platelets" can help to understand the abnormal hematopoietic function of platelets.

There is 1 50-year-old male in Taichung, who has long-term problems of abnormally high white blood cells and low platelets, and is worried that he has leukemia. So, at the suggestion of Dr. Lin Zengxi, they accepted the "reticular platelet" examination, only through routine blood drawing, no additional blood drawing is needed, and a test report will be issued later. The results showed that Abreu's reticular platelet value was quite high, indicating that it was not the bone marrow problem, but the platelets in peripheral blood were destroyed. Therefore, doctors can safely use drugs to restore platelets to normal values, and Abreu also avoids the pain of extracting bone marrow.

This new blood test project-"Reticular Platelet" test was jointly developed by Linxin Hospital and Taichung Veterans General Hospital. At present, the first biological reference value of reticulated platelets in China has been established, and the research paper was successfully published in the famous foreign medical journal Clinical Trial in May this year.