The Marathon Runners of the Immune System: Understanding Lymphocytes

Once again the Bloody Minded Crew have ventured out of the lab to find and trap another haematology registrar from the wards and convince them to come back to the show and talk about cells. Join haematology registrar Dr Lise Kempler as she teaches the team about what to do when that lymphocyte number just creeps up and up and up. 

TIMESTAMPS

2:34 - Aspiring to be a lymphocyte  
5:44 - What are lymphocytes?  
9:52 - Cutoffs (arbitrary as usual)  
13:09 - Infective causes  
15:21 - Morphological clues  
17:23 - Investigations for infectious causes  
17:54 - Flow cytometry  
22:33 - Clues for Badness  
23:34 - Case Studies  
36:18 - T-LPDs  
38:10 - ALL Out of Nowhere  
40:54 - Take Home Messages  

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