| More marked elevations are found in few conditions, easily diagnosed clinically, such as sickle cell or megaloblastic anemias. |
| Treatable anemias like iron deficiency and pernicious anemia are by far the most common. |
| In normocytic anemias, the mean corpuscular volume is within defined normal limits, but the hemoglobin and hematocrit are decreased. |
| Utility of reticulocyte maturation parameters in the differential diagnosis of macrocytic anemias. |
| These include mononucleosis, leukemia, splenomegaly, Hodgkin's disease, AIDS and all the various types of anemias. |
| It occurs in well-marked cases of pernicious anemia and leukemia, and, much less commonly, in very severe symptomatic anemias. |
