There was no need for an oven. I chose to make chocolate donuts with chocolate glaze, topped with St. Pattyâs Day sprinkles. I adapted a recipe for the donuts from Wilton and adapted the glaze from a recipe I found on myrecipes.com from Sunset magazine. Then I headed to a local bakery at my Maceyâs grocery store.
Mean platelet volume (MPV) is a machine-calculated measurement of the average size of platelets found in blood and is typically included in blood tests as part of the CBC.PV is higher when there is destruction of platelets. This may be seen in inflammatory bowel disease, immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), myeloproliferative diseases and Bernard-Soulier syndrome.
My CBC report includes a result for immature platelet fraction (IPF). IPF is the relative number of immature platelets (also called reticulated platelets) in the blood. Platelets are produced in the bone marrow and are normally not released into the bloodstream until they have matured. When platelet numbers in the blood are low (thrombocytopenia), it stimulates the bone marrow to produce platelets faster. When the need is great and when production cannot keep up with demand, then an increased number of immature platelets will be released into the bloodstream. This IPF test result would be one of the values reported when blood is evaluated using an automated hematology analyzer.