elevated blood count
By IAMRUMI
@IAMRUMI (1)
United States
November 16, 2006 6:20pm CST
I am looking for information on cbc results. I would lioke to know if anyone knows what RDW is a marker for? And what does it mean when it is elevated? N
1 response
@Signal20 (2281)
• United States
17 Nov 06
Red cell distribution width (RDW) is a calculation of the variation in the size of your RBCs. In some anemias, such as pernicious anemia, the amount of variation (anisocytosis) in RBC size (along with variation in shape – poikilocytosis) causes an increase in the RDW.
For a second there, bet you thought I was real smart huh? lol Got that from this site, probably have to cut and paste into your browser.
http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/cbc/test.html
