Blood Drug Testing

Can Doctors see whether your spleen and liver are infected through Blood tests?

I had glandular fever a few months ago... My spleen and liver got infected, my two doctors kept taking blood and so to see how it was progressing... if it was getting any better. I just moved to college and since I started to walk a lot, my spleen started to hurt a lot, so I went back as the previous blood test showed that my liver was back to normal but not my spleen. So the new doctor told me that there was no way the doctors could have seen it in my blood... is it true? Can doctors see those things in your blood?

Public Comments

1. Here in the states it's called infectious mono. The virus infects lymphocytes and there is an immune attack against the virus and the lymphocytes located in immune organs including the liver and the spleen. The attack can lead to inflammation of the liver with elevated liver enzymes ie hepatitis. One can follow the enzyme concentration and see if it's getting better or worse and follow the course that way. There is no test for spleen involvement directly per say. There is hyposplenism and hpersplenism which demonstrates certain abnormalities on certain blood counts and sometimes abnormal morphologies especially on red blood cells on a blood smear. This is an indirect way of detecting function. Splenic involvement is usually palpated with ones fingers for enlargement or by ultrasound and some people sometimes have pain. Viral infections, especially Mono, is associated with atypical looking lymphocytes which are usually greater than 10% of the cells seen. It is one of the diagnostic criteria used involving infectious mono.