Anatom3DLymphocytes
Lymphocyti · Lymfocyty
Lymphatic & immune
Looks like
Small round cells with a large nucleus filling most of the cell, circulating between blood, lymph nodes and spleen.
What it does
Recognise specific germs and remember them, giving lasting immunity.
Keeping it well
HIV destroys one kind (helper T cells); persistently high counts with swollen glands need checking for lymphoma or leukaemia.
Its parts
Related conditions
- Acute leukaemia (AML & ALL)
- African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness)
- Aplastic anaemia & marrow failure
- Chronic leukaemia (CML & CLL)
- Clotting disorders (thrombophilia & APS)
- Dehydration & electrolyte disorders
- Delirium
- Dengue & mosquito-borne fevers
- Diabetic ketoacidosis
- Disseminated intravascular coagulation
- Ebola virus disease
- G6PD deficiency (favism)
- Haemophilia & bleeding disorders
- Hereditary spherocytosis
- High cholesterol
- HIV infection
- Lymphoma (Hodgkin & non-Hodgkin)
- Malnutrition & refeeding syndrome
- Maternal (puerperal) sepsis
- MGUS (monoclonal gammopathy)
- MRSA and resistant staph infection
- Multiple myeloma
- Myelodysplastic syndromes
- Neonatal sepsis
- Neutropenic sepsis
- Postpartum haemorrhage
- Primary immunodeficiency
- Scrub typhus & rickettsial infections
- Sepsis
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Toxic shock syndrome
- Transplant rejection & graft-versus-host disease
- Typhoid & cholera
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies
- Vitamin D deficiency
- Von Willebrand disease