From:
Steve Austin
Date: 2005-10-18 17:02:33 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] RE: Calix''s CBC results - actual numbers
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
I am sorry for your loss.
This blood count shows extreme anemia, actually life threatening.
It also shows the bone marrow was working , actually in overdrive
trying to produce more blood ( the high retic count).
That makes this a regenerative anemia ( verses the non-regenerative
types)
The white cell count and platelet count
were also very low- showing the bone marrow couldn't produce any
of it's cells enough. Potentially from an overwhelming depletion, severe
infection, or the cells were being used up or destroyed by the ferret's
body.
Hemolytic Anemia comes to mind, as perhaps blood loss from bleeding.
But in the blood loss scenarios the white cells are typically not
affected.
This site explains anemias well:
http://www.2ndchance.info/anemia.htm
I don't think there would have been much to do for this, depending
on if the cause, The only emergency thing would have been a blood
transfusion and then you still don't know what the underlying cause
was- so it would have been a very temporary fix.
Patty
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:12:11 +0100 (BST) ann@haager.net writes:
> I don't know how to read this and I didn't have time to get them to
> explain it to me so I'm going to copy it down as I see it and
> hopefully someone on here can explain it a little to me...at least
> tell me what each thing is.
>
> 10/14/05
>
> WBC = 0.71
> LYM = 0.20
> MONO = 0.14
> NEU = 0.32
> EOS = 0.05
> BASO = 0.01
> %LYM = 28.5%
> %MONO = 19.6%
> %NEU = 44.2%
> %EOS = 6.5%
> %BASO = 1.2%
> HCT = 8.5%
> RBC = 1.33
> HGB = 3.7
> RETIC = 213.6
> %RETIC = 16.1%
> MCV = 63.7
> RDW = 25.1%
> MCHC = out of reportable range
> MCH = 28.10
> PLT = 91
> MPV = 13.10
> PCT = 0.1%
> PDW = 21.7%
>
> That's it. I didn't ask for the first one, so this is all I have.
>
> Ann
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