01 - hematology quiz Flashcards
4 film findings in regenerative anemia
- polychromasia
- nucleated RBCs (metarubricytes)
- howell-jolly bodies
- basophilic stippling
(polychromasia)
- = immature RBCs
- marked polychromasia = regen response
- (in anemic) 2 causes of strong regen response?
2 in non-anemic?
- marked response in dogs > 500,000, in cats > 200,000
- blood loss, hemolysis
PFK, hypoxia
(regen anemia)
(hemolysis)
- TP?
what other 3 things?
- if oxidative?
- if DIC?
- if immune mediated?
- can also see with parasites
- normal
hemoglobinemia/uria, icterus, splenomegaly
- heinz bodies, eccentrocytes
- schistocytes, keratocytes
- spherocytes, agglutination, inflam leukogram
(regen anemia)
(blood loss)
(acute)
- TP? and what else?
- if hemangiosarcoma
- if DIC?
- decreased, thrombocytopenia
- acanthocytes, schistocytes
- schistocytes, keratocytes, thrombocytopenia
(regen anemia)
(blood loss)
(chronic)
- TP? what else?
- if iron def?
- normal or decreased, thrombocytosis
- hypochromasia +/- low MCV, keratocytes, schistocytes
(hypochromasia)
- pale cause why?
- most common cause in dogs?
- many hypochromic cells required to lower MCHC
- low hemoglobin conc
- iron def
(spherocytes)
- covered in Abs, what eat?
- large numbers = ?
- also seen with what 4?
- macrophages
- IMHA (not always present though)
- heinz-body anemia, zinc, transfusion, DIC
(keratocytes)
- physical or chemical injury
- 3 causes?
- blister cells -> helmet (2 projections) or 1 projection (apple-stem)
- keratocytes more susc to intravascular trauma -> ?
- iron def, oxidative dmg, microangiopathic dz
- schistocytes
(echinocytes)
- 6 causes?
- dogs with snake -> type 3 (fine projections)
- artifact, renal dz, electrolyte disorders, chemo, lymphoma, snake venom
(schistocytes)
- red cell fragments from shearing of cells by intravascular or extravascular trauma?
- 4 causes?
- may be seen with wwhat in severe iron def?
- also reported in glomerulonephritis, liver dz, heart failure
- intra
- DIC, hemangiosarc, vasculitis, HW
- keratocytes
(acanthocytes)
- few blunt irregularly distributed spicules?
- from changes in what?
- changes in lipid metabolism - what two?
- lipid content
- liver dz (hepatic lipidosis), hemangiosarc in dogs
(heinz bodies)
- small circular structures within or protruding from red cell
- = ?
- alter cell membrane -> more susc to intra/extravascular hemolysis
- causes of oxidative dmg?
- 3 causes in cats?
- denatured hemoglobin from oxidative dmg
- onions, garlic, zinc, propylene glycol, acetaminophen, benzocaine, propofol, phenothiazine, vit K
- hyperT4, lymphoma, DM
(eccentrocytes)
- result from what kind of damage?
- causes same as heinz-body
- oxidative
(Howell Jolly bodies)
- nucelar remnants (small round basophilic inclusions)
- seen normally in small numbers
- ^ = ?
- ^hematopoeisis, splenic dysfunction
(basophilic stippling)
- numerous small basophilic dots inside red cells (ribosomes)
- cause?
- regen anemia
(in absence of regen = lead)
(rouleaux)
- some is normal
- enhanced by what?
- ^ plasma proteins (immunoglobulins) -> block neg charges
(agglutination)
- Ab bridging
- suggests what?
- what test to confirm?
- IMHA
(parasites can be underlying cause)
- saline agglutiation test
(erythroparasites)
- some cause IMHA and spherocytes/agglutination, some cause direct lysis
(erythroparasites)
(cats)
1-2. what two (plus how they look)
- mycoplasma haemofilis (dot on periphery, or rings in cells)
- cytoxzoon felis (inside cells, small signet ring)
anemia non-regen (most are regen)
(erythroparasites)
(dogs)
1-3. what three?
- mycoplasma haemocanis
small chains on surface of RBC
only in immuno
- babesia gibsoni (looks like C. felis - signet ring inside)
- babesia canis (large oval piroplasms)
(nucleated erythrocytes)
- typically metarubricytes
- 5 causes?
- included in leukocyte counts
- count as number per 100 leukocytes corrected
- regen response to anemia, bone marrow injury, splenectomy/splenic dysfx, lead, erythrodi neoplasia (FeLV)
(leukocytes)
- marked left shift with toxic change = ?
- severe inflam process
- immature neutrophils (bands) = ?
- magnitude of left shift related to severity of inflammation
- degenerative left shift (immature outnumber segmented) = poor prog if persistent
- left shift
(toxic change)
- 6 changes?
- caused by what?
- usually a left shift along with toxic change
- cystoplasmic basophilia, dohle bodies, foamy vacuolization, toxic granulation (pink granules), giant neutrophils, donut neutrophils
- accelerated bone marrow production
(associated with severe infalmmation - sepsis)