Clinical Hematology
Blood counts in clinical hematology can give a deeper insight in health status or disease progress. Changes of cellular morphology and composition of erythrocytes, leukocytes and platelets point to hematopoietic disorders, anemia, immunological and other abnormalities. These altered blood counts may become manifest in several diseases, e.g. leukemia.
All necessary information about red blood cells, hematocrit, hemoglobin, MCH etc., as well as differential blood count of leukocytes are determined by using a dedicated laboratory analyzer, the IDEXX ProCyte DX.
- Parameters
See a list of all available parameters in hematology below:
White Blood Cell Count Abbr. Parameter Unit WBC total number of white blood cells x 103/µl LYM amount of lymphocytes x 103/µl MON amount of monocytes x 103/µl NEUT amount of neutrophiles x 103/µl BASO amount of basophiles x 103/µl EOS amount of eosinophils x 103/µl Red Blood Cell Count Abbr. Parameter Unit RBC total number of red blood cells x 106/µl HGB hemoglobin g/dl HCT hematocrit % MCV mean corpuscular volume fl (µm3) MCH mean corpuscular hemoglobin pg MCHC MCH concentration g/dl RDW range of distribution % RET% relative amount of reticulocytes % RET# total amount of reticulocytes x 103/µl Thromocyte Parameter Abbr. Parameter Unit PLT total number of platelets x 103/µl MPV mean platelet volume fl (µm3) - Examples of Clinical Hematology
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Healthy animals red blood cells and platelets (A) and white blood cells (B) as comparison.
Changed population sizes in the form of increased reticulocytes and immature platelets (C), decreased platelets (D) and decreased reticulocytes (E).
Altered white blood cell counts with increased cell number, especially monocytes (F), increased leukocytes with morphological changes of neutrophils (G) and leukopenia (H).
