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↑ = primary and
secondary
polycythemia,
erythropoietin-
secreting tumors,
and renal disorders
Differential 62 55-75 ↓ = neutropenia – in Neutrophils are active
Count: acute bacterial phagocytes; number increases
Neutrophil infection, viral rapidly during short-term or
infection, some acute infections.
parasitic, blood,
aplastic, and
pernicious anemia,
anaphylactic shock,
and renal disease
↑ = neutrophilia – in
acute localized and
general bacterial
infections, gout and
uremia, acute
hemorrhage, and
hemolysis of RBC’s,
myelogenous
leukemia and tissue
necrosis
Lymphocytes 28 20-35 ↓= Lymphocytes are part of
lymphocytopenia / immune system; one group (B
lymphopenia – cells) produces antibodies;
gastrointestinal tract other group (T cells) involved
and in aplastic in graft rejection, fighting
anemia, immune tumors and viruses, and
system dysfunction, activating B lymphocytes.
and severe or
debilitating disease
of any kind
↑ = lymphocytosis –
occurs in certain
chronic diseases and
during
convalescence from
acute infection
↑ = eosinophilia –
are caused by
allergies, hay fever,
asthma, chronic skin
infection,
immunodeficiency
disorders, and some
infections and
collagen diseases
Basophil 1 0-1
Platelet count 275 150-400 ↑ platelet level= Non nucleated, Disc-like
anemia due to iron components of the blood.
deficiency, Platelets are non-nucleated
cancer of colon, fragments of large bone
cancer of liver, marrow cells. They play an
cancer of testis, important role in blood
pulmonary clotting.
tuberculosis
↓ platelet level=
acquired immune
deficiency syndrome
(AIDS) , acute
lymphocytic
leukemia, chronic
renal failure,
congenital
afibrinogemia.