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Does anyone know what “GR” is? On Ken’s blood test it says GR - %

and GR – number, I’ve looked can’t find out what it is. Something to do with red blood cells??

His labs weren’t good, worse than before. Alk Phos 900, AST 174, ALT 155, Ammonia

back up to 105.

Either he’s really anemic or (I’m hoping)

the angiogram and subsequent “bruise” caused some minor blood loss

and the numbers will come back up. Either

of those would be better than the thought of him bleeding somewhere. Way too

many highs & lows dot his results.

Thanks for any help regarding the GR.

Barb in Texas - Together in the Fight, Whatever it Takes!

Son Ken (33) UC 91 - PSC 99 - Tx 6/21 & 6/30/07 @ Baylor in Dallas

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Jonathon's wife is right on target. My wife is also a med tech

(retired) and used to have to count all the white cells under the

microscope.

The GR% is the percentage of granulocytes out of all the white blood

cells. I think that typically they run 70% +/- 10. If the percentage

is high it might mean an infection or steriods or that the other cells

like lymphocytes are low.

The GR# is the absolute number of granulocytes. i.e if the white

count is 5K and the GR% is 50% then the GR# would be 2.5K

Don't get me started on specialist primary care interaction.

Communication takes time and effort and is often neglected.

Von

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> My wife (med tech) suggests granulocytes, and this web site:

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> http://www.hrpca.org/cbc.htm

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> seems to agree: " There are five main types of white blood cells: /

> neutrophils <javascript:

> optionsdisplay('../../../glossary/neutrophil.html')>/(also called /

> granulocytes/ - GR and GR# "

>

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