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According to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society:
The normal RBC range for men is 4.7 to 6.1 million cells per microliter (mcL).
The normal RBC range for women who aren’t pregnant is 4.2 to 5.4 million mcL.
The normal RBC range for children is 4.0 to 5.5 million mcL.
These ranges may vary depending on the laboratory or doctor
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Recently my father's red blood cell count was too low to measure (basically zero).
All vital functions ceased.
They pumped in transfusion units as fast as possible and somehow managed to resuscitate and he survived.
This was a result of a bad reaction to chemotherapy for chronic leukemia (CLL) and what they suspected was Richter's transformation.
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Richter's syndrome (RS), also known as Richter's transformation, is a transformation which occurs in about 5-10% of B cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)[1] and hairy cell leukemia into a fast-growing diffuse large B cell lymphoma, a variety of non-Hodgkin lymphoma which is refractory to treatment and carries a bad prognosis.[2] There is also a less common variant in which the CLL changes into a Hodgkin's lymphoma. Rarely, transformations to a form of myeloid leukemia have been observed. These extraordinarily rare transformations carry a very poor prognosis.[3] Richter's transformation affects about 5% of CLL patients at some point during their lives.
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