background & objective: there are many common infections and inflammations among people over the world. this demands an affordable and reliable test with high sensitivity/specificity to predict or confirm the diagnosis of such cases in routinely clinical practice. in the present study, we aimed to find any potential correlation between serum levels of ggt and crp- q and/or hs- crp and wbc c...

Abstract Background Glucantime is the first line agent for treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL). It has adverse effects on blood elements. This research has been done to evaluate the blood complications of this medicine in patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis. Methods This clinical trial was done at Nikpour clinic, Yazd, Iran. Blood samples were collected from patients diagnosed with ...

BACKGROUND The health of an individual is known to vary in different countries, in the same country at different times, and in the same individuals at different ages. This means that the condition of individuals must be related to or compared with reference data. Determination of a reference range for the healthy term newborn is clinically important in terms of various complete blood count para...

Earlier detection of colorectal cancer greatly improves prognosis, largely through surgical excision of neoplastic polyps. These include benign adenomas which can transform over time to malignant adenocarcinomas. This progression may be associated with changes in full blood count indices. An existing risk algorithm derived in Israel stratifies individuals according to colorectal cancer risk usi...

AIMS To determine the relevance of lymphopenia to the diagnosis of bacteraemia in patients admitted with medical emergencies, relative to peripheral blood white cell count and neutrophilia. PATIENTS/METHODS A two year cohort study carried out in a teaching hospital in Oxford, UK of 21,495 consecutive adult emergency admissions to general medical or infectious disease wards. Full blood data we...

Simple routine blood tests (full blood count, platelet count, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, C reactive protein, and serum albumin) may select children with chronic gastrointestinal symptoms who require endoscopic assessment and are thus an important aid in the prediction of endoscopic status. When all of the results are normal then chronic inflammatory bowel disease is an unlikely diagnosis.

Dear Editor, Dengue is an important arbovirus infection. This infection can result in an acute febrile illness. The important hematological abnormalities included hemoconcentration and thrombocytopenia (1). Due to the decreased platelet count, the patient might develop petechiae and hemorrhagic complication. In endemic area, the presumptive diagnosis of dengue is usually derived by the cl...

UNLABELLED Background : Full blood count has been shown to predict disease severity and mortality risk in cancer patients. This study aimed to highlight the degree of derangements of full blood count parameters and provide mean values in pre-chemotherapy breast cancer patients compared with apparently normal control subjects. METHODS This was an unmatched case-control study among breast cance...