Date: September 21, 2010

HEMATOLOGY

Test Result Reference Cinical significance Functions

WBC count 6.87 5.0-10.0 x ↑ = signs of A leukocyte(leucocyte),

10g/l infection known as a white blood cell,
is a type of cell of the immune
system that protect against
foreign material and
infectious diseases.
Hemoglobin 126.0 120- ↓ = anemia, liver Hemoglobin is responsible for
140g/dl and kidney disease binding oxygen in the lungs
↑ = primary and and in transporting the bound
secondary oxygen throughout the body
polycythemia, where it is used in aerobic
COPD, CHF, burns metabolic pathways.

Hematocrit 0.37 .37-.40 ↓ = anemia or Hematocrit is a measure of the

hemodilution proportion of blood volume
↑ = dehydration, that is occupied by RBC’s.
polycythemia or
hemoconcentration
RBC count 4.56 4.20-6.10 ↓ = anemia, acute RBC’s transport oxygen
and chronic bound to haemoglobin; also
haemorrhage, transports small amount of
leukemia, and carbon dioxide.
chronic infection

↑ = 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

Eosinophil 3 1-6 ↓ = eosinopenia – Eosinophils kill parasitic

results from worms; increase during
increased adrenal allergy attacks; might
steroid production phagocytise antigen-antibody
that accompanies complexes and inactivate
most conditions of some inflammatory
bodily stress as in chemicals.
acute infections,
CHF, and disorders
with neutropenia

↑ = 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.