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Have Low Retic Count Of 0.6 And Hgb Of 138. Family History Of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. Concerned

Posted on Thu, 15 Nov 2012

Question: 53 year old woman recently received a low retic count of 0.6 and hgb of 138. Family history of chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Is this a re d flag?

Answered by Dr. Jonas Sundarakumar (2 hours later)

Hello and welcome to Healthcare Magic. Thanks for your query.

I think you must have mistakenly entered the Hemoglobin value. Is it 13.8 (because 138 is not likey)?

Could you please send me the entire blood test report...
(Usually a complete blood count will include Hemoglobin, Hematocrit / PCV, MCV, MHC, MCHC, Reticulocyte count, WBC and Patelet counts, etc.)

Wish you all the best.

- Dr. Jonas Sundarakumar

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar