But more commonly, essential thrombocythemia is usually found unintentionally when elevated platelet levels are found on a routine complete blood count.
On the full blood count, the mean corpuscular volume, which reflects the size of the red blood cell, is usually normal or low, for the congenital causes.
If you have acute leukemia, market exhaustion, market fatigue, your blood count is like super low, and you may be losing weight, and you're exquisitely sensitive to getting infections.
The nature of the patient isolation unit permitted only point-of-care laboratory testing initially; complete blood counts and serum chemical studies were available starting on hospital day 3.
Labs including full blood count, liver enzymes and serology can be useful to identify the cause and an upper GI Endoscopy can identify esophageal varices in order to treat them appropriately.
Birds act as a reservoir for the virus, meaning the virus can replicate at high enough levels to cause significant viremia, or elevated viral blood counts, which allows for transmission to other uninfected mosquitoes.
And... you know she did say there's a chance that you could have chemo but your blood count is so low... that we need to get it up to a certain point before you can even... have chemo.