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 was wondering, my CBC was completely normal EXCEPT absolute lymphocytes were very low like 570 when normal was 800 something and above. What does that mean?
Answer Hello Jill:
All the CBC values have a normal range which is arrived at as an average of a set of values obtained from a given normal population.
There are people who would fall outside the range. If you are otherwise healthy and this was done for a routine health check up, I would not worry.
If on a subsequent tests it drops further and you have some infection / fever / weakness etc please contact a physician for further evaluation.
