Haem Flashcards
Smear cells
CLL
Philadelphia chromosome
9:22
BCR-ABL
CML (but can be associated with AML/ALL)
Imatinib (TK inhibitor)
Auer rods
AML
Tear drop poikilocytes and JAK2
Myelofibrosis
pruritis and raised haemoglobin after shower (aquagenic pruritis)
Polycythaemia (Rubra) Vera
Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APML)
- translocation and its name
- common presentation
t(15:17)
PML-RARA translocation
Still has Auer rods like AML
Presents with bleeds (DIC common)
61yo with CLL
Presents with pneumonia, haemoptysis, endobronchial mass, anaplastic large cell lymphoma
Richter’s transformation
Diffuce B cell Lymphoma (DBCL)
Sheets of large lymphoid cells
Clumsiness, progressive weakness, personality change after chemo
Progressive multifocal leukencephalopathy (JC virus)
Massive splenomegaly (classically which leukemia? which other haem condition?)
CML, Myelofibrosis
High calcium, CLOVER LEAF nuclei, LNs
Adult T cell Lymphoma
HTLV-1
Adult T cell Lymphoma
Paraprotein IgM
Waldenstroms macroglobulinaemia
Paraprotein IgG
Multiple Myeloma (or MGUS or Smouldering depending on blasts and symptoms)
<30g/dl IgG and <10% blasts for MGUS
>30g/dl IgG and >10% blasts for SM or MM
Only MM is CRAB Sxs
AA vs AL amyloidosis
AA = Chronic illness e.g. RA, IBD
AL = Multiple Myeloma
Amyloidosis is a paraproteinaemia!! Can see raised paraproteins (often less than 30)
Post transplant EBV
PTLD (Post transplant lymphoproliferative disease)
Anaplastic lymphom
Alk 1
Past histort of DVT, easy bruising, LOADS of platelets
ET (essential thrombocythaemia)
Pregnant woman with low platelets, schistocytes, neuro sxs (headache and seizures), but LOW BP
TTP
Pregnant patient with slightly low platelets in 3rd trimester (asymptomatic)
Gestational thrombocytopenia (not same as physiological but it is benign and no tx is needed. It is the most common cause of low platelets in pregnancy. If platelets <70 think HELLP or ITP)
Can’t breathe and DIC
Amniotic fluid embolism
Normal heam values in preg for
- Hb
- MCV
- WCC
- Platelets
- Plasma volume
Normal heam values in preg for
- Hb low
- MCV normal or high (macrocytosis)
- WCC high
- Platelets low
- Plasma volume high
Prolonged APTT, normal PT, prolonged bleeding time
vWD
Prolonged APTT, normal PT, normal bleeding time
Haemophilia
INR Targets
- AF/cardioversion
- MI!!
- Single DVT
- Recurrent DVTs
- Prosthetic valve
INR Targets
- AF/cardiov 2.5
- MI 2.5
- Single DVT 2.5
- Recurrent DVTs 3.5
- Prosthetic valve 3.5
Lower = more clots
INR within 0.5 of target is satisfactory
Rule of thumb - everything except recurrent DVTs/PEs and some prosthetic valves is 2.5 target!
Is heparin intrinsic/extrinsic pathway and APTT or PT
intrinsic pathway and APTT
Is warfarin intrinsic/extrinsic pathway and APTT or PT
Extrinsic and PT
Anaemic with frontal bossing and XR: hairs on end
Thalassaemia
osmotic fragility
hereditary spherocytosis
Membrane defect RBCs
Spectrin deficiency –> hereditary sphero/elliptocytosis
Heinz bodies
G6PD
Warm haemolytic anaemias
- antibody type
- blood film
- causes
- IgG
- Spherocytes
- CLL, SLE, methyldopa