While the hemogram of a patient on hydroxyurea for sickle cell disease is being monitored, which laboratory result would prompt an urgent call to the patient's hematologist?
a. Hemoglobin, 5.5 g/dL
b. Platelet count, 95,000/mm3
c. Reticulocytes, 70,000/mm3
d. Neutrophil count, 2800/mm3
c
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