Sentences with phrase «abnormal white blood cell»

Some PPID cases may have abnormal white blood cell counts or high insulin or blood sugar levels.

Your vet checks for an abnormal white blood cell count, which is how the illness is diagnosed.

This elusive stability must be achieved before stem cell supplies can be kept on hand until it is time to turn them into replacements for say misshapen red blood cells seen in sickle cell anemia or abnormal white blood cells causing leukemia.

A blood cancer characterized by the rapid growth of abnormal white blood cells, AML is typically treated with chemotherapy, in some cases followed by a stem cell transplant.

The abnormal white blood cells — known as B cells — sometimes released skeins of DNA similar to NETs.

A variety of genetic alterations can cause abnormal white blood cells to proliferate and crowd out the normal blood cells.

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In APL, immature white blood cells called promyelocytes increase in abnormal numbers and accumulate in the bone marrow.

Healthy plasma cells produce antibodies that fight infection in the body, but myeloma cells produce high levels of abnormal antibodies that, when the cancer cells accumulate, they crowd out production of other important blood cells, both red and white.

Lymphomas are caused by an abnormal proliferation of white blood cells and can occur at any age.

A form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, follicular lymphoma develops when the body starts making abnormal B - cells, which are white blood cells that in normal conditions fight infections.

Instead of producing healthy lymphocytes, white blood cells that fight infections, his bone marrow was unleashing abnormal lymphocytes into his bloodstream.

Multiple myeloma cells are abnormal plasma cells (a type of white blood cell) that build up in the bone marrow and form tumors in many bones of the body.

Blast cells are the immature white blood cells that become abnormal and accumulate in the bone marrow and blood in cases of leukemia.

And according to recent studies conducted in Japan, the full ripe bananas with dark patches on their skin produce the largest quantity of TNF (Tumor Necrosis Factor), a cytokine that fights abnormal tumor cells in the body by stimulating the production of white blood cells and assisting their communication.

As it progresses, there I an abnormal increase in the white blood cells and this type of cancer is often diagnosed in older people while this is rare for people below age 45.

In 2006, Shelia Gannon was close to the end of a losing battle against acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a form of cancer that causes abnormal blood formation and a shortage of red and normal white blood cells and platelets.

Patients receiving tacrolimus may develop high blood - pressure, tremor, many and varied digestive disturbances, kidney toxicity, headaches, liver toxicity, abnormal blood sugar control (diabetes), skin itching, white blood cell toxicity, high potassium levels, and hypomagnesemia.

Copper deficiency is characterized by fatigue, anemia, neutropenia (low level of neutrophils, the most common type of white blood cell that protect against infection), leukopenia (abnormal decrease of leukocytes or white blood cells), bone and joint abnormalities, skin abnormalities, impairment of nerve and muscle function, impairment of adrenal and thyroid gland function, reproductive difficulties and loss of hair and skin color.

Leukemia is the name given to a number of cancers that affect the infection - fighting white blood cells and where there is an abnormal over production of white blood cells.

When white blood cells multiply in an abnormal and uncontrolled way, these immature cells take over, literally crowding the bone marrow thereby preventing it from producing healthy blood cells and causing a shortage of red blood cells.

This disease makes the body form abnormal lymphocytes, which are a type of white blood cell.

The CBC looks for abnormal levels of white blood cells (WBC), which is sometimes seen in a pet with pneumonia.

If the vet finds high levels of white blood cells known as eiosinophils in your pup's blood and abnormal liver enzyme activity, a parasitic infection could be the cause, petMD says.

A urinalysis is the examination of urine for abnormal substances such as blood, protein, sugar or white blood cells, which may indicate a UTI.

This disease causes the body to form abnormal lymphocytes, which are a type of white blood cell.

Upon examination of the blood, it may reveal neutropenia (an abnormal decrease in the number of neutophils / white blood cells), which confirms the presence of the canine parvovirus infection.

Urine specimens from cats with FLUTD may show a variety of abnormal findings, such as the presence of red blood cells, white blood cells, bacteria or crystals.

More alarming are the statistics for the increasing presence of Ehrlichiosis, another tick - borne disease which inhabits and destroys white blood cells, and can result in abnormal bleeding and inflammation, neurological issues, kidney failure and paralysis in dogs.