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 received my blood work report from my Dr Friday and my Monocytes(Absolute) count which should be 4-13 is 1. I seen the nurse practitioner and she went over the results with me and did not mention this. So did she miss something and should I call and question this or is it nothing to worry about? Everything else looks to be in the normal range except my RDW is a little high at 15.1 the range says 11.7-15.0
Answer Hello Annette:
Your blood counts are within normal range as mentioned by you. Only the monocytes are at a low level of 1. This is not something to worry about. All blood value ranges are an average of a set of normal population. people do fall out of the range and as long as you are healthy this is not significant.
