Table 2.

Peripheral blood hemogram from patients with biological and mechanical heart valve prostheses and healthy volunteers.

Cell type	Healthy volunteers, n = 48	Biological prosthesis, n = 25	Mechanical prosthesis, n = 7
WBC	6.0 (5.1; 7.5)	6.0 (5.4; 7.0)	5.3 (3.9; 7.1)
Neutrophils	3.3 (2.8; 4.6)	3.5 (2.9; 4.7)	2.9 (2.0; 4.3)
Lymphocytes	1.9 (1.5; 2.3)	1.8 (1.6; 1.9)	1.6 (1.3; 1.7)
Monocytes	0.4 (0.3; 0.5)	0.5 (0.4; 0.6)	0.5 (0.4; 0.6)