Sentences with phrase «lower packed cell volume»
Clinical pathology may also be difficult to interpret as neonates have lower packed cell volume, albumin, and total solids values.
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A low red blood cell count (often called a packed - cell volume or hematocrit) means something is bleeding, something is damaging / consuming red cells or the body isn't producing enough.
Additionally, hemolysis results in release of analytes and enzymes from red blood cells (RBCs), which can falsely elevate many test results.5 Destruction of RBCs yields a lower RBC count.1 Excess fluid released from the lysed RBCs also creates a dilution effect in serum and can result in an artifactually decreased packed cell volume.