Table 2.
Demographic and hematological characteristics of each patient with a diagnosis of SCA and bacterial meningitis.
| Case | Year of diagnosis | Age (years) | Sex | RBC (106cells /mm3) |
Hematocrit (%) | Hemoglobin (g/dL) | Platelets (103cells/ mm3) | WBC (cells/ mm3) |
Neutrophils (cells/ mm3) | Lymphocytes (cells/ mm3) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1999 | 5 | M | NA | 18 | 5.5 | NA | 58,000 | 52,204 | 3,480 |
| 2 | 2000 | 6 | M | 2.1 | 17.8 | 5.6 | 171 | 25,500 | 20,910 | 3,825 |
| 3 | 2001 | 11 | M | 3.2 | 20.8 | 6.5 | 226 | 23,400 | 18,954 | 3,978 |
| 4 | 2002 | 3 | M | 2.1 | 16.7 | 5.2 | 385 | 23,300 | 20,970 | 2,097 |
| 5 | 2003 | 18 | M | 3.2 | 34.6 | 10.9 | 299 | 65,700 | 64,386 | 657 |
| 6 | 2006 | 20 | M | NA | 39.5 | 12.9 | 88 | 40,100 | 33,283 | 3,208 |
| 7 | 2007 | 35 | F | 3.4 | 30.7 | 9.4 | 609 | 10,900 | 9592 | 1,090 |
| 8 | 2007 | 22 | M | 3.1 | 25.6 | 8.9 | 365 | 21,300 | 17,679 | 2,556 |
| 9 | 2011 | 2 | M | 3.8 | 30.3 | 9.1 | 246 | 19,600 | 14,308 | 4,900 |
| 10 | 2011 | 6 | M | 2.1 | 25 | 7.7 | 340 | 32,000 | 23,360 | 7,680 |