Posted on February 2, 2010.
If an elderly person has low levels of hemoglobin, has received three units of blood, and after 3 days still has the damn country and still has a good blood count after three days ------- Would this not indicate leukemia? bone marrow test today --- had an ulcer and drugs was the straw (the doctor did not know) he thinks this may have caused bleeding ulcers --- can someone advise me ? We are all worried. thank you
The bone marrow test is extremely useful to exclude many causes of anemia, including leukemia, lymphoma, myelofibrosis.
Iron deficiency can be diagnosed on a bone marrow biopsy (looking at the reserves of iron in the marrow)
The fact that the blood count has remained in place for three days after a transfusion is a good sign that there is no severe acute blood loss, but does not prove anything.
What the doctor check your stool for blood? This is the easiest way to check if you lose your bloodstream through the digestive tract, or not doing enough. It is possible that you could be bleeding intermittently, even if the "finger in the ass" test is negative, if the bone marrow test is normal, you probably need to be carried above and below (upper endoscopy and colonoscopy).
More than likely it was the drug of gout. Leukemia would probably show in the WBC count of donebefore CBC or units after infusion, but the bone marrow could say with certainty. Good luck to you and yours!
It appears this may be good but trust anyone here to tell you something, what the tests show the spinal cord, do a scan and see if there is an ulcer appears that you may need a Another doctor