How do you approach a persistently elevated mean platelet volume and immature platelet fraction in an otherwise healthy patient with a normal platelet count?

Provided that the platelet count is normal, do you usually consider this to be a potential erroneous result or do you pursue additional workup for RBC and WBC abnormalities that could be falsely elevating the MPV?

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I am trying to understand the circumstances where this question might arise. Nowadays, when patients can readily see CBC results before their clinicians, they might notice the H or L designations and ask. In general, I would not think twice about "slightly out of range" CBC parameters in a single me...

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