Screening for Hemoglobin C Using Technicon H-6000: The Effect of Formalin
Antonio La Gioia, Arcangelo Lofaro, Fabio Laube, Mario Petrini · Acta Haematologica · 2009
It has recently been shown that the automated H-6000 cell counter is unable to correctly process blood samples containing hemoglobin C. In this paper, we report that formalin is responsible for the failure of red blood cell lysis in the H-6000.