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What is the myeloid?

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Bone marrow

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Outline the development of neutrophils

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  • In the bone marrow, occasionally extramedullary haematopoiesis (spleen, liver, other)
  • Myeloblast -> progranulocyte -> myelocyte -> prolferation and maturation -> metamyelocyte -> band -> segmented neutrophil -> maturation
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What is meant by “left shift”?

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More immature neutrophils seen

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Outline the movement of mature neutrophils to death

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  • Neutrophil maturation
  • Period storage followed by circulation
  • Will either be in middle of vessel or towards wall of the vessels (marginated)
  • After margination, out of the vessel
  • Hypersegmentation and death
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What are the steps required for neutrophils to leave blood vessels?

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  • Marginalisation
  • Adhesion
  • Migration
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What factors may produce a shift from marginal to circulating pool of neutrophils?

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  • Epinephrine
  • Infection
  • Stress
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What allows the adherence of neutrophils onto cell walls and migration through the wall?

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Binding selectin receptors on blood vessels to ligands on cell walls

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Compare the proportions of the marginal and circulating pool of neutrophils in the dog and cat

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  • 50:50 in dogs

- Cat: 25-50% circulating, 50-75% marginal

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What is the effect of glucocorticoids on vessel wall adhesion of neutrophils?

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Causes neutrophils to stick to walls less i.e. demarginalise and age in the circulating pool

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Compare the circulation of lymphocytes and neutrophils

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Recirculation occurs with lymphocytes, but not with neutrophils

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Compare the appearance of equine lymphocytes to those of dogs

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Dogs: small cells with round nuclei, smooth dense chromatin, small rim of blue cytoplasm
- In horse: slightly larger, finer, looser chromatin pattern

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Describe the lymphocytes found in ruminants

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  • variable in appearance
  • many are large lymphocytes
  • Loosely clumped chromatin
  • Fairly abundant cytoplasm
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Describe the appearance of reactive lymphocytes

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  • Larger cells
  • Coarse (mature) chromatin
  • Deep blue cytoplasm
  • Aka immunocytes
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Describe the appearance of granular lymphocytes

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Distinguished by small pink granules collected into one area of the cytoplasm

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What may cause variation in the shape of lymphocytes?

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  • Mechanical forces applied during smearing

- Molded by contact with red cells

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Describe the appearance of feline monocytes

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Often look like a “splat” with cytoplasmic vacuolation and some tinge to cytoplasm

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What aspects of haematology are included in the erythron?

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Red blood cells, haemoglobin, haematocrit/PCV, MCV, MCHC

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What aspects of haematology are included in the leukon?

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  • Total WBC
  • Neutrophils
  • Lymphocytes
  • Monocytes
  • Eosinophils
  • Basophils
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What aspects of haematology are included in the thrombon?

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Platelet count

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Describe the characteristics of leukocytosis

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  • Neutrophilia
  • Lymphocytosis
  • Monocytosis
  • Eosinophilia
  • Basophilia
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Describe the characteristics of leukopaenia

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  • Neutropaenia
  • Lymphopaenia
  • Monocytopaenia
  • Eosinopaenia
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What are the potential causes of altered WBC number and morphology?

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  • Infection
  • Inflammation and endocrine
  • Lymphoid and myeloid neoplasia
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What does neutropaenia indicate in horses and cattle and why?

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Inflammation - neutrophil count dependent on what is being taken out, less produced than taken out indicates inflammation

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List the potential causes of neutrophilia

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  • Inflammation
  • Immune mediated anaemia
  • Necrosis
  • Steroid
  • Physiological (stress)
  • Chronic neutrophil leukaemia
  • Paraneoplastic
  • Others e.g. LAD
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Explain how steroids lead to neutrophilia
- Stress, steroid therapy, HAC - Increase release of marrow storage pool cells - Increase demargination of neutrophils by reducing stickiness to the wall so increase circulating pool - Prevent extravasation by reducing the stickness
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What characteristics indicate that a neutrophilia is due to steroids?
Hypersegmented cells seen in blood due to aging of cells in circulating pool i.e. right shift
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Give examples of paraneoplastic causes of neutrophilia
- Rectal polyp - renal tubular carcinoma - Metastatic fibrosarcoma
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Explain how LAD leads to neutrophilia
- Leukocyte adhesion deficiency - Will not stick to vessel walls due to lack of adhesion molecules - Stay in circulation
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What may cause increased release of the marrow storage pool of neutrophils?
- endotoxaemia - Acute infection - Hypoxia - Glucocorticoids
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What may cause expansion of the marrow precursor pool of neutrophils?
- Chronic infection of inflammation - Tumours - Rebound from neutropaenia - Myeloproliferative disorders
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Describe what is meant by a stress leukogram
Low lymphocyte, high neutrophil
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List the causes of neutropaenia
- Inflammation (peracute/overwhelming bacterial infections, canine and feline parvo) - Decreased production: infections, toxicity, neoplasia (leukaemia, myelodysplastic, metastasis), marrow necrosis, myelofibrosis - Rarely: Immune mediated neutropaenia, Chediak Higashi, acyclic haematopoiesis in grey collies, canine hereditary neutropaenia
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In a case of neutropaenia, what is the most likely cause if there is no anaemia, platelets are adequate, and a left shift is present?
Acute inflammation
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In a case of neutropaenia, what is the most likely cause if there is no anaemia, platelets are adequate, and a left shift is not present?
- Acute viral infection | - Acute marrow injury
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In a case of neutropaenia, what is the most likely cause if there is any combination of: non-regenerative anaemia, thrombocytopaenia, presence of neoplastic cells?
Chronic marrow injury
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How should neutropaenia in acute inflammation in the dog or cat be interpreted?
Very severe lesion
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How should neutropaenia in acute inflammation in the horse be interpreted?
Probably severe lesion
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How should neutropaenia in acute inflammation in the cow be interpreted?
Neutropaenia typical in inflammation regardless of severity
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Describe the marrow reserve, regenerative capacity, typical reference interval, typical inflammatory values and uncommon neutrophil counts in dogs
- Reserve: relatively high - Regen: rapid - Typical: 3.0-11x10^3/ul - Inflammation: 12-30x10^3/ul - Uncommon: >60x10^3uk
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Describe the marrow reserve, regenerative capacity, typical reference interval, typical inflammatory values and uncommon neutrophil counts in cats
- Reserve: intermediate - Regen: intermediate - Typical: 2.0-12.5x10^3/ul - Inflammation: 13-25x10^3/il - Uncommon: >40x10^3/ul
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Describe the marrow reserve, regenerative capacity, typical reference interval, typical inflammatory values and uncommon neutrophil counts in horses
- Reserve: intermediate - Regen: intermediate - Typical: 2.2-8.6x10^3/ul - Inflammation: 9-20 x10^3/ul - Uncommon: >30x10^3/ul
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Describe the marrow reserve, regenerative capacity, typical reference interval, typical inflammatory values and uncommon neutrophil counts in cattle
- Reserve: relatively low - Regen: slow - Typical: 0.6-4x10^3/ul - Inflamm: 4-10x10^3/ul - Uncommon: >20x10^3/ul
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Describe the appearance of reactive lymphocytes
- Increased cytoplasmic basophilia - Perinuclear halo - Prominent golgi zone (clear are) - Larger, eccentric, cleavednucleus - More medium and large vs. peripheral blood small lymphocytes
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What are the potential causes of lymphocytosis?
- Catecholamine mediated via splenic contraction (physiological) - Chronic inflammation - Young animals and recent vacciantion - Lymphoproliferative disorder e.g. FeLV, BLV, - Hypoadrenocorticism
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What are the potential causes of lymphopaenia?
- Stress/steroid - Acute inflammation - Loss of lymph - Cytotoxic drugs, radiation - Immunodeficiency syndrome - Lymphoma (LN pathology an disrupted circulation)
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How does stress/steroid lead to lymphopaenia?
- Endogenous/exogenous, incl stress of being unwell | - Shifts lymphocytes of of circulation and lymphocytolysis
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Explain how loss of lymph can lead to lymphopaenia
Chylothorax or lymphangiectasia, meaning circulation is not getting back to the blood
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Explain how cytotoxic drugs or radiation may lead to lymphopaenia
Damage to production of lymphocytes/disruption of the circulation
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What may cause monocytosis?
- Inflammation: infectious, necrosis, haemolysis, haemorrhage, neoplasia, infarction, trauma - Steroid/stress - Monocytic.myelomonocyti c leukaemia
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What is the importance of monocytopaenia?
None - no level of monocytes below which we worry
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What are teh potential causes of eosinophilia?
- Hypersensitivity - Parasitism - Hypoadrenocorticism - Paraneoplastic - Idiopathic eosinophilic syndromes - Eosinophilic leukaemia (v rare)
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Give examples of idiopathic eosinophilic syndromes
- Canine eosinophilic bronchopneumopathy - Myositis - Feline eosinophilic granuloma
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What may cause eosinopaenia?
Glucocorticoids, stress, inflammation
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Compare the sensitivity to glucocorticoids of eosinophils and lymphocytes
Eosinophils more sensitive
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List potential cuases for the presence of nucleated red cells
- Regenerative anaemias - Lead toxicity - EMH and splenic contraction - Damaged marrow - Inappropriately high numbers: erythroleukaemia (e.g. erythemic myelosis in cats)
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Describe the characteristics of a regenerative left shift
- Segmented > immature | - Neutrophil count increased
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Describe the characteristics of a degenerative left shift
- Immature > segmented - Neutrophil count the same, decreased or increased - Indicates inability/difficulty to keep up with demand
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What may cause neutrophil toxic change?
- Usually severe bacterial infection - Parvo - IMHA - ARF - DIC - Neoplasia
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What does neutrophil toxic change indicate?
High neutrophil demand
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Describe the potential appearance of neutrophil toxic change
- Foamy cytoplasm: dispersed organells (not discrete) - Diffuse cytoplasmic basophilia - Doehle bodies: focal blue-grey cytoplasmic structure (RER, RNA) - Asynchronous nuclear maturation: finely granular nuclear chromatin but in segments
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What are toxic changes in neutrophils?
Morphologic abnormalities acquired during maturation under conditions that intensely stimulate neutrophil production and shorted the maturation time in the marrow
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What do most toxic neutrophil changes occur as a result of?
Asynchronous maturation between nucleus and cytoplasm
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Describe the normal process of granulocytopoiesis
- Lengthening and pinching of nucleus are coordinated with progressive condensation of chromatin and loss of cytoplasmic basiphilia - Produces white cytoplasm with pink granules, long and fairly narrow nuclei and tightly condensed chromatin
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Describe the different appearances of cytoplasmic basophilia in neutrophil toxic change
- Focal: pale blue spots = Doehle bodies (aggregated ribosomes and whorls of RER) - Streaked - Diffuse:
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What causes the frothy/vacuolated cytoplasm seen in neutrophilic toxic change?
Degranulation of lysosomes
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List examples of neutrophil inclusions
- Bacterial: Ehrlichia, Anaplasma - Viral: canine distemper - Protozoa: toxoplasma, hepatozoon - Fungi: histoplasma - Hereditary/metabolic: Chediak-Higashi, Birman cat anomaly, mucopolysidosis
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What are heterophils?
Functional equivalent to neutrophils in which the granules stain red. Found in rabbits, reptiles, birds
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Outline the use of WBC differential % and WBC absolutes
- % only for calculation of absolutes | - Absolutes should be used for comparison against reference intervals for clinical purposes
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Describe the leukogram pattern associated with excitement
- Mature neutrophilia )2x dogs, horses and cows, >2x in cats) - Lymphocytosis esp. cats
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Describe the leukogram pattern associated with steroid/stress
- Mature neutrophilia - Lymphopaenia - Eosinopaenia - +/- monocytosis
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How can total leukocyte count be measured manually?
Haemocytometer
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What are the different techniques for the machine measurement of total leukocyte count?
- Impedance - Laser - Combined laser and impedance - Multichannel laser
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Which machine technique is best for the counting and sizing of leukocytes?
Impedance - measures change in voltage across receptor to give count and size (degree of change)
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Which machine technique is best for the differentiation of leukocytes?
Laser (assess intracellular complexity and lobularity)
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List the main disadvantages of automated leukograms
- Non count bands, other WBC precursors or nRBCs - None report toxic change - None report WBC inclusions - None specifically report atypical or reactive morphology - Bands and metamyelocytes may be miscounted as monocytes
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Which is the most reliable method for automated leukograms?
Impedance
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Describe the typical acute inflammatory leukogram pattern
- Total WBCs increased - Segmented neutrophils increased - Non-segmented neutrophils increased - Lymphocytes decreased - Monocyte normal to increased - Eosinophils low to normal
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Describe the typical chronic inflammatory leukogram pattern
- Total WBCs increased - Segmented neutrophils increased - Non-segmented neutrophils normal to increased - Lymphocytes normal to increased - Monocyte normal to increased - Eosinophils normal
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Describe the typical steroid leukocytosis leukogram pattern
- Total WBCs increased - Segmented neutrophils increased - Non-segmented neutrophils normal to slight increase - Lymphocytes low - Monocyte increased - Eosinophils low
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Describe the typical physiologic leukocytosis leukogram pattern
- Total WBCs increased - Segmented neutrophils increased - Non-segmented neutrophils normal - Lymphocytes increased - Monocyte normal to increased - Eosinophils normal
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Describe the typical acute overwhelming inflammatory leukogram pattern
- Total WBCs low - Segmented neutrophils low - Non-segmented neutrophils normal to increased - Lymphocytes low - Monocyte normal - Eosinophils low to normal
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Describe the typical acute inflammatory with endotoxaemia leukogram pattern
- Total WBCs low - Segmented neutrophils low - Non-segmented neutrophils normal to increased - Lymphocytes low - Monocyte normal - Eosinophils low to normal
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Describe the typical granulocytic hypoplasia leukogram pattern
- Total WBCs low - Segmented neutrophils low - Non-segmented neutrophils normal - Lymphocytes normal - Monocyte normal - Eosinophils normal
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Describe the typical ineffective neotropoiesis leukogram pattern
- Total WBCs low - Segmented neutrophils low - Non-segmented neutrophils normal - Lymphocytes normal - Monocyte normal to increased - Eosinophils normal
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Describe the typical hypoadrenocorticism leukogram pattern
- Total WBCs normal - Segmented neutrophils low o normal - Non-segmented neutrophils normal - Lymphocytes normal to increased - Monocyte normal - Eosinophils normal to increased
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Describe the typical haemic neoplasia leukogram pattern
- Total WBCs hugely increased | - Cell line affected expected to be increased, other cell lines typically normal or decreased
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