Every time you experience a common cold or other symptoms of infection, it is an indication of a low WBC count. Also known as leukocytes, white blood cells form 1% of your blood but have a very ...

Participants were from an atherosclerosis cohort survey, including 9540 community residents, that was conducted between December 2011 and April 2012 in Beijing, China. Initially, the prespecified age ...

The results, published in the March 14, 2005 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, show that a WBC count greater than 6.7x10 9 cells/L may identify individuals at high risk of cardiovascular ...

NEW ORLEANS — An acute postoperative infection following total knee replacement is a difficult diagnosis for the orthopedic surgeon to make. A recent multicenter, multisurgeon study, however, provides ...

Of 289 patients with bacteremia, 52% had normal WBC count and 17% had neither WBC elevation nor fever. Despite multiple studies showing that a normal white blood cell (WBC) count does not exclude ...

Thrombotic events are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality for patients with polycythemia vera (PV), and previous reports have shown a significant correlation between elevated white blood ...

What is the workup for persistent (months to years) elevation of the WBC count in an asymptomatic patient who demonstrates no other abnormalities in the complete blood count? —Phuong Thi Ngoc, DO, ...

Genome-Wide Analysis of Survival in Early-Stage Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) with pretreatment WBC counts greater than 10,000/μL is still considered to carry a poorer ...