Abstract
Reticulocytes are erythroid precursors that develop into mature erythrocytes, and they are an important tool to assess erythropoietic activity, as their count indicates the balance between the cells released from the bone marrow, their stage of maturity, and their rate of development into mature erythrocytes. Considering the described biological variability of the absolute reticulocyte count (ARC) and the immature reticulocyte fraction (IRF) and the limited information available on these hematological parameters in children, this study determined the reference intervals (RIs) of these parameters in a healthy pediatric population. A retrospective, observational, and analytical study was designed to establish RIs for the ARC and the IRF according to age and sex. An indirect sampling method was applied to a mixed database of complete blood counts from children aged 2months to 18years, using the truncated maximum likelihood indirect method for reference interval estimation. Percentiles were calculated to obtain bimodal RIs. From a total of 190,812samples, 6,814 were selected. Gender stratification was not necessary for the ARC and the IRF but they required partitioning into six and two age groups, respectively. This study determined, by an indirect sampling method, RIs for the ARC and the IRF in a pediatric population according to age and sex.
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