Haem - General Flashcards
Blood film: microcytic, hypochromic cells with anisocytosis, poikilocytosis and pencil cells
Iron Deficiency anaemia
Signs: Angular cheilosis, brittle hair/nails, Plummer-Vinson syndrome, koilonychia, atrophic glossitis
Iron deficiency anaemia
Blood results: Iron low, Ferritin low, TIBC raised, Saturation low
Iron deficiency anaemia
Blood film: basophilic stippling
Lead poisoning
Blood film: erythroid precursors with iron deposited in mitochondria in a ring around the nucleus, dimorphic RBCs
Sideroblastic anaemia
Blood results: Iron high, TIBC normal, Ferritin high
Sideroblastic anaemia
Blood results: iron high, TIBC low, ferritin high
Chronic haemolysis
Blood film: hypersegmented polymorphs, leucopenia, RBC precursors with immature nucleus and mature cytoplasm, macrocytosis,
Megaloblastic anaemia (B12/folate/cytotoxic drugs)
Mouth: Glossitis, angular cheilosis
Neuropsychiatric: Irritability, depression, psychosis, dementia.
Neurological: Paraesthesiae, peripheral neuropathy (loss of vibration and proprioception first, absent ankle reflex, spastic paraperesis, subacute combined degeneration of spinal
cord)
Vitamin B12 deficiency
Blood results: raised Hb, low haptoglobins, raised LDH, Raised reticulocytes, raised unconjugated bilirubin
+ dark red urine + haem and albumin in urine
Intravascular haemolysis
Blood results: raised Hb, raised LDH, Raised reticulocytes, raised unconjugated bilirubin
+ splenomegaly
Extravascular haemolysis
Aetiology of hereditary spherocytosis
Autosomal dominant
Deficiency in spectrin or ankyrin
Results:
Osmotic fragility test: raised
DAT coombs NEGATIVE
Hereditary spherocytosis
Aetiology of hereditary eliptocytosis
Almost all autosomal dominant
Spectrin mutation
Except for Hereditary Pyropoikilocytosis (erythrocytes are abnormally
sensitivity to heat) – autosomal recessive (small print)
What is the aetiology of Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) Deficiency
X-linked recessive
Blood film: bite cells, heinz bodies (blue deposits, oxidised Hb)
G-6-PD deficiency
Investigations for G6PD deficiency
Film: Heinz bodies (Methyl violet stain) and bite cells
Fluorescent spot test (G6PD and NADP)
Methaemoglobin (Methylene blue)
Guthrie spot
G6PD activity
Blood film: Spherocytes, echinocytes (hedgehog-like)
Pyruvate kinase deficiency
What is Donath-Landsteiner antibodies
stick to RBCs in cold → complement-mediated haemolysis on rewarming (self-limiting as IgG so dissociate at higher temp than IgM).
Ham’s test +ve
Paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria
Blood film: schistocytes
MAHA
Antibodies against ADAMTS13
Thrombotic thrombocytopenic prupura
aetiology of Paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria
PIG A
Sickle cell disease aetiology
Autosomal recessive
Glu → Val on codon 6 of beta chain (Chr 11) → HbS
Skull bossing, maxillary hypertrophy, hairs on end skull X-ray
Beta thalassaemia
Blood film:
Teardrop RBCs (+Aniso and poikilocytosis)
Nucleated RBCs
Immature myeloid cells/myelocytes
Leucoerythroblastic anaemia
blood film: heavy toxic granulation of neutrophils, vacuoles seen
Reactive neutrophilia e.g. to infection
Coagulation results: APTT prolonged, PT/INR normal
Haemophilia OR VWD
Results:
Platelets low
Fibrinogen low
High fibrin degradation products/D-dimer
Long PT/INR
DIC
Results:
II, V, VII, IX, X, XI, fibrinogen low
VIII and VWF high
Liver disease
anti cardiolipin, lupus anticoagulant
APLS