Table 2.

Comparison of whole blood cell and liver function in patients diagnosed with liver failure after admission in our hospital with the earliest definitive diagnosis of HLH.

Liver failure diagnosed at admission								HLH definitively diagnosed during hospitalization
Patient ID	WBC1	HGB1	PLT1	ALT1	AST1	TBIL1	INR1	WBC2	HGB2	PLT2	ALT2	AST2	TBIL2	INR2
	×109/L	g/L	×109/L	u/L	u/L	umol/L		×109/L	g/L	×109/L	u/L	u/L	umol/L
1	1.84	84	114	1341	1066	333	2.16	2.15	86	76	179.2	315.3	95	1.46
2	2.64	107	55	1727.7	706	372.5	1.99	0.56	86	55	146.8	148.9	207	1.62
3	9.26	124	69	620	675	505	1.67	4.33	61	21	64.8	71.3	517	1.33
4	12.12	98	149	679.4	571.1	348.5	2.02	2.75	62	7	145.7	86.4	201	1.12
5	3.85	105	133	203	407	391	2.05	2.22	79	56	52.9	94.8	217	1.36
6	9.32	112	256	409	200.7	445.2	1.52	4.19	72	16	174.7	132.4	176.1	0.84
7	11.04	105	40	739	660	512	1.63	4.3	57	41	279.9	228.7	297	1.07
8	13.72	128	180	823	745.2	402.3	1.83	12.34	89	67	616.9	367.2	349	1.34
9	3.45	99	89	318	436	130.8	1.67	2.77	69	63	96.8	150.5	107.9	1.29
10	4.27	153	125	260	381	510.9	1.66	15.28	71	79	21	50.5	107	1.12
11	2.64	96	38	90.7	358.5	397.6	1.54	1.76	49	33	43.1	164.3	350	1.33

Abbreviations: WBC, white blood cells; Hb, hemoglobin; PLT, platelet; ALT, alanine aminotransferase; AST, aspartate aminotransferase; TBIL, total bilirubin, INR, international normalized ratio.

Reference range: WBC: 3.5–9.5 × 10⁹/L, HGB: 130–175 g/L; PLT: 125–350 × 10⁹/L; Alt: 7–40 u/L (F), 9–50 u/L (M); Ast: 13–35 u/L (F), 15–40 u/L (M); TBIL: 5–21 umol /L; INR: 0.8–1.2.