Category: Systems

Clinical Correlations


Medicine by the Numbers: Blood Count

By Michael Ford, MD

Faculty Peer Reviewed

  

                                             

2.65 x 10[13]
# of erythrocytes in circulation, assuming Hematocrit 45%[1]

 
 

 
 

120
Lifespan in days of an erythrocyte[2]

 
 

 
 

2.5 million
# of new erythrocytes produced each second to replace dying cells

 
 

 
 

5.3 million
# of …

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