Top answers from doctors based on your search:
Disclaimer

What does a low mpv mean

A 42-year-old female asked:
Dr. Dimitri Novitzky
Thoracic Surgery 54 years experience
Reduced MPV: A hematologist should provide the answer. The best I found as far MPV is as Follows, the rest is normal Mean platelet volume (MPV) is a machine-calcul... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
A 31-year-old male asked:
Dr. Tarik Hadid
Internal Medicine - Hematology & Oncology 20 years experience
Depends!: The low MPV does not usually have any significant importance. I tend to ignore it most of the time. The slightly elevated WBC can be due to many thing... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
A 27-year-old female asked:
Dr. Gurmukh Singh
Pathology 51 years experience
Need more info: All laboratory results need to be interpreted in the clinical context and the doctor who ordered the tests is usually in the best position to do that.... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
A female asked:
Dr. Ed Friedlander
Pathology 46 years experience
I'm not concerned: These are all just very slightly out of the reference ranges, present no health hazard, warn of nothing, and if you're feeling healthy, go home thankf... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
A 38-year-old female asked:
Dr. Louis Cooper
Pediatrics 50 years experience
More information nee: Low mpv--means the the patient has smaller platelets. This may be associated with some family history of smaller platelets or with some syndromes. H... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
A 34-year-old female asked:
Dr. Matthew Fero
Medical Oncology 33 years experience
Small platelets: MPV stands for Mean Platelet Volume and is a measure of the size of the platelets in your blood. Platelets are cellular elements that help initiate bl... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
A 38-year-old female asked:
Dr. James Ferguson
Pediatrics 48 years experience
Hard to say: To even begin to sort this out the history, exam & actual lab values (numbers) would be required. From the meager data described she could have se... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
A 22-year-old female asked:
Dr. Liawaty Ho
Hematology and Oncology 25 years experience
No worry: Nothing you should worry about. I do not thing that the low mpv has anything to do with your bruising and bony aches. Brusing can be caused by differe... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
A 24-year-old female asked:
Dr. Louis Cooper
Pediatrics 50 years experience
No problem: The MPV means the size of the platelets. Size of platelets can be hereditary. Occasional syndromes have low MPV and larger MPV can be associated w... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
A 52-year-old female asked:
Dr. Steven Ginsberg
Internal Medicine - Hematology & Oncology 39 years experience
Please elaborate: Can you send your entire blood count and something about your health? This would be very helpful.
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
Connect with a U.S. board-certified doctor by text or video anytime, anywhere.
$44 video appointments with $19/month membership*
*Billed $57 every 3 months. Cancel anytime.