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 looking over a one year-old blood test and I noticed I had several outliers that the doctor never addressed. Most concerningly was my MPV, which has the range of 7.2-9.4 on the results page and 7.0-12.0 according to a website on the internet. My MPV was 6.8 (& Plt was 197). My WBC was 10, RBC was 5.27, and Hgb was 16.2 (all on the high side). Should I be concerned for leukemia (possibly early symptoms) or any other pathology?
Answer Hello Ryan:
I apologize for the delay in answering, due to unforeseen circumstances I was unable to attend to your question.
Your results are normal and there is no connection to leukemia. You should go with the range provided in the lab report as these are arrived at as an average of a given set of normal population. What you saw on the net may not be specific to your area / lab
