A variety of pathological and physiologicalprocesses in the human body can be accompanied by a condition such as leukocytosis. What it is? This disease, in which there is an increase in the level of leukocytes in the blood. Their number may exceed 9x109.
Common signs of the disease are:
However, very often leukocytosis occurs without manifestation of symptoms, or only signs of the underlying disease are present.
Treatment of the disease, first of all, is aimed at eliminating the causes that caused it. To identify the disease will require a blood test. Leukocytosis is treated with the following means:
A procedure such asleukapheresis. The process consists in extracting leukocytes from the blood. After the procedure, the blood can be transferred back to the patient or left for laboratory tests.