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What could cause high white blood cells and low platelets?
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Leukemia: Bone marrow malignancies involving the myeloid cells will cause abnormal growth of a certain clone of white cells and inhibit the proliferation of normal cell populations such as platelet precursors and red cell precursors so anemia would be expected also. Severe infection with septicemia could lead to the same problem via destruction of platelets in small blood vessels. Two very different cases!
Answered 4/30/2015
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Many things: What kind of what blood cells are elevated, and how high? The most likely answer is some sort of leukemia. If it's lymphocytes then it may be chronic lymphocytic leukemia- a potentially chronic disease. If it's granulocytes, i would worry about acute leukemia or cml.
Answered 4/25/2013
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