's EGD-No Varicies!!

[Guest guest]

Hi, thought I'd let you know there were no varicies(none since July)

in 's esphogus again.Yeah!!Her stomcah did show some red

places-nothing real magor-She won't have to have an upper scope again

for 6 months as long as everything goes smoothly!!

Her labs were:WBC-1.7, RBC-3.7,HGB-12.6,Plts-47,PT-17.1.This is about

par for the course for her.I have a question:what is RDW-CW,RDW-

SD,MPV? Can someone give me a link so I can find out more about the

blood flow & what happens when you have portal hypertension & liver

cirrhosis?I know that eventually will have to have a shunt

surgery for blood flow,but no one can predict when that might be.She

is just holding her own & as she says " flying under the radar " .

Thanks for anyone's input.

-'s(16,PSC & UC) mom

[Guest guest]

,

RDW is Red cell Distribution Width. Don't know what the CW or SD

appendages mean. RDW is used in conjunction with Mean Corpuscular

Volume (MCV) to check out the presence of conditions that affect the

size of red blood cells. (See http://www.fpnotebook.com/HEM82.htm)

For a portal hypertension site I'm going to suggest Johs Hopkins again:

http://hopkins-gi.org/pages/latin/templates/?pg=disease3 & organ=2 & disease=25 & lang\

_id=1 & pagetype=12 & pagenum=283

(Or go to http://hopkins-gi.org/pages/latin/templates/ select 'Liver'

in the Digestive Disease Library and portal hypertension. From there

you can either read the Introduction or Select A Section to jump

around at the site.)

HTH,

Tim R

> I have a question:what is RDW-CW,RDW-SD,MPV?

> Can someone give me a link so I can find out more about the

> blood flow & what happens when you have portal hypertension & liver

> cirrhosis?...

> -'s(16,PSC & UC) mom