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In order to answer this question, let's talk about the blood elements, okay? this question says, susan finally visits her physician after feeling tired, dizzy, nauseous, and feverish for a long time.
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During her physical, the doctor draws whole blood to do a complete blood count and white cell differential.
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How might this help in making a diagnosis? so, a complete blood count will give general information about the basic parameters.
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Of blood that are for example hemoglobin levels okay also the white blood cell the platelets too okay also other parameters like m cd there is a mean corpuscular volume of rbcs then you have the a s c s s s sr that is the erythrocy sedimentation weight and so on okay the differential white blood cells is going to differentiate into the neutral files for example neutrophiles eocinophiles lymphocytes and other cells like for example basophiles and others okay so in this case susan is coming to the to the office for because she's feeling tired dizzy nauseous and feverish for a long time so for a long time so it is not an acute process so when you have this long time work and you have fever and you have fever you are thinking about maybe a chronic blood condition, for example, some cancer of the blood, okay? because fever is a good sense that there is inflammation, inflammation in general.
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Okay, so you have inflammation, for example, because you have cellulitis or you have an infection, there is inflammation, and that causes your fever, okay? but there is not common reason for you to have fever for a long time.
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If you have fever for a long time, maybe you're thinking about a chronic infection, for example, tuberculosis or brucellosis, but also you are thinking about neoplasia, okay? because cancer can cause you fever for a long time, okay? only with the symptoms of feeling tired, dizzy, nauseous, and only with them, you can think about anemia, for example, or maybe other problems.
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But the important information of feverish or fever or the position, or the position, that it is a fever, then it would increase the possibilities for chronic conditions like neuplasia or chronic infections like tuberculosis or brucell...