AboutNeha Dahiya MD Expertise I can help patients understand their lab report results, help them with queries regarding what pretest preparation is required. How often a follow up test needs to be done. What does a particular tissue biopsy report mean in everyday English. I can explain the biopsy or cytology procedure. I can deal with Histopathology / cytology / clinical pathology and clinical chemistry queries. Helping in this manner will be my contribution to the community.
Experience I am a pathologist and director of clinical laboratory services. I have been a practicing pathologist for last 9 years in a 350 bed multi specialty hospital laboratory.
Organizations Indian association of pathologists and microbiologists.
MIAC - Member International Academy of Cytology
International association of Pathologists - indian division
Indian association of Cytology
Question I have a male relative that is 62. He has recently had a white
count test result of over 40,000. A sed rate well over 140,
and a IGA of over 5,000. What could be the causes of these
readings, especially in combination? Thank you in advance!"
Answer Hello Jennifer:
The White cell count is very high this can be seen in severe infection as well as in leukemia. The raised sed rate points to a chronic disease.
However to put a name to the disease with this information is pure speculation. A bone marrow exam and look at the morphology of cells is important to rule out if it is just infection or something more serious like leukemia, myeloma or lymphoma or some other immunoglobulinopathy
