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
I have a 22-month old granddaughter with an 8-month history of unexplained fevers; 2 months of hives and rashes. Has a VERY preliminary diagnosis of Autoinflammatory Disease or JIA.
Recently had blood work done (during a well period). Most of the numbers were in the normal range, but her Lymph % is 65, Neut% is 25; absolute lymph # is 7.2 and neut # is 2.8 (which is in normal range, I think). Sedimentation rate is 4.
When I googled it, the articles mention some type of viral infection or cancer - NOT JIA or autoinflammatory disease.
Time to panic?
Thanks.
Answer Hello BT:
Please do not panic the CBC results are within normal range. The numbers do not suggest cancer.
Moreover, cancer of blood (leukemia) is diagnosed based on morphology the appearance of cells and not based on the count of cells.
Your granddaughter would require further evaluation and more tests to arrive at a final diagnosis.
