KROK 1 2021 – Question 12 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
Examination shows that total leukocyte count in the patient’s blood is 11 · 10⁹/L, with 80% neutrophils, among which 9% are band neutrophils. Characterize the changes in the cell composition of «white» blood in this case:
- A. Nuclear right shift of neutrophils
- B. Nuclear left shift of neutrophils
- C. Lymphocytosis
- D. Neutropenia
- E. Leukopenia
Hint
Check the percentage of immature band forms among the neutrophils against the normal range of roughly 1–6% and decide what an excess implies.
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