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This must be a huge relief for you and will surely have relieved much stress from Duncan.
One of the actions of the cortisone is to reduce inflammation - that it also appears to have restored vision could provide a skilled diagnostician with a path forward towards determining why this occurred.
Elevated leukocytes would be expected after steroid administration. By itself, it does not confirm the presence any infection.
It's unfortunate that the blood draw for the testing wasn't done before the first steroid injection.
But, I don't think all is necessarily lost. I believe that a skilled pathologist, maybe even technician, can determine if the leukocytes are raised because of the steroid's action or as a result of infection.
As an aside, hypertension can not be diagnosed nor dismissed by simple examination and observation.
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This must be a huge relief for you and will surely have relieved much stress from Duncan.
One of the actions of the cortisone is to reduce inflammation - that it also appears to have restored vision could provide a skilled diagnostician with a path forward towards determining why this occurred.
"the blood test results...show elevated leukocytes"
It's unfortunate that the blood draw for the testing wasn't done before the first steroid injection.
But, I don't think all is necessarily lost. I believe that a skilled pathologist, maybe even technician, can determine if the leukocytes are raised because of the steroid's action or as a result of infection.
As an aside, hypertension can not be diagnosed nor dismissed by simple examination and observation.
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