How do you approach a persistently elevated mean platelet volume and immature platelet fraction in an otherwise healthy patient with a normal platelet count?
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Pediatric Hematology/Oncology · St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
I am trying to understand the circumstances where this question might arise. Nowadays, when patients can readily see CBC results before their clinicians, they might notice the H or L designations and ask. In general, I would not think twice about "slightly out of range" CBC parameters in a single me...