Causes of Leukocyte Adhesion Defect

Leukocyte Adhesion Defect Causes: Book Excerpts

• Differential Diagnosis - Leukocytosis

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Leukocytosis: Differential Diagnosis
(In A Page: Pediatric Signs and Symptoms)

• Neutrophilia
  –Increased production: Chronic infection or inflammation, tumor, drug-related, myeloproliferative disorders, chronic idiopathic neutrophilia, leukemoid reaction (Down syndrome, sepsis), chronic blood loss
  –Increased release from marrow/ demargination: Corticosteroids, stress, exercise, hypoxia, endotoxin, acute infection
  –Decreased removal from circulation due to splenectomy/asplenia, corticosteroids, leukocyte adhesion deficiency
  –Others: Hemolysis, infarction, diabetic ketoacidosis, renal failure, hepatic failure, thyrotoxicosis

• Lymphocytosis
  –Infection: EBV, CMV
  –Heme/onc: Leukemia, neutropenia
  –Endocrine: Thyrotoxicosis, Addison

• Basophilia
  –Infection: Sinusitis, Varicella, smallpox
  –Endocrine: Hypothyroidism, ovulation, pregnancy, stress
  –Drugs
  –Heme/onc: Hemolytic anemia, Hodgkin disease, CML, polycythemia vera
  –Inflammatory/collagen vascular disease

• Monocytosis
  –Infection: Syphilis, tuberculosis, subacute bacterial endocarditis, malaria, typhoid fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever
  –Heme/onc: Recovering marrow, hemolysis/hemolytic anemia, leukemias, Hodgkin disease, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, postsplenectomy, myeloproliferative disorders, congenital and acquired neutropenia, metastatic solid tumors
  –Chronic inflammatory, collagen vascular

• Eosinophilia: Can be inherited
  –Allergy/asthma; parasitic infection
  –Heme/onc: Hodgkin disease, leukemias, immunodeficiency, postsplenectomy, solid tumors, pernicious anemia
  –Chronic inflammatory/collagen vascular/
• Other: Rheumatoid arthritis, periarteritis nodosa, cirrhosis, Loeffler syndrome, sarcoid, dialysis

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Source: In A Page: Pediatric Signs and Symptoms, 2007

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