Objective: To evaluate analytical performance of Sysmex UF-1000i for peritoneal fluid analysis.
Methods: Functional sensitivity, imprecision, linearity and comparison studies were performed on peritoneal fluids.
Results: Total imprecision was 1.6-4.7%, functional sensitivity 27/μL for white blood cell (WBC) and 32/μL for total nucleated cell (TNC) count. Linearity was excellent up to 983 cell/μL, carry-over <0.2%, correlation with manual microscopy always greater than 0.992.
Conclusion: The instrument exhibited optimal performance at the conventional WBC diagnostic thresholds.
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