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

Exercise 4

Heidi, a 54-day-old female, was admitted to the hospital because of recurrent respiratory distress and failure to gain weight. She was born prematurely at 35 weeks gestation by urgent Cesarean section. Her mother was immune to rubella and had negative serologic tests for syphilis.
Consider why the lymphatic system should be evaluated in this child and the possible etiology of repeated respiratory problems.
Admission CBC on Heidi was WBC:
Hct: 0.55 L/L; Plt:
and differential: 84% segs, 2% bands, 4% lymphocytes, 8% monocytes, and 2% eosinophils.
Does this patient have a leukocytosis or leukopenia?