Clinical Laboratory Hematology 3rd Edition by Shirlyn McKenzie, Lynne Williams

Exercise 18

A patient receiving chemotherapy experienced severe marrow suppression and anemia, leukopenia, and thrombopenia as a result. After about one week, the platelet count remained low, and the number of reticulated platelets was above the reference interval for that parameter. This would likely indicate that the: (Objective 4)
A) patient's marrow is failing to initiate recovery of the thrombocytopenia
B) patient is a candidate for erythropoietin
C) patient should receive a blood transfusion
D) the patient's marrow is showing early signs of recovery of the thrombocytopenia