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Is It Normal ??
Aug 23, 2001

Dear Doctor,

I was wondering if it were normal or even possible to have normal wbc of 9.5 and lymphocytes of 32.5, but have low CD4 count? I live in a place where CD4 counts are not available, is there a way to estimate CD4 count based on other test ??

Please help, really need it.

Response from Dr. Holodniy

There is no way to be accurate about this unless you have subset analysis. I assume that 32.5 is the percent of lymphocytes, that translates to 3100 lymphocytes, which is a normal number. This includes B cells and T cells, which are divided fairly evenly between CD4 and CD8 cells.



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