Hema Flashcards
Diagnostic test for PNH
Flow cytometry
Markers absent on erythrocytes in patients with PNH
CD55 and CD59
Virus that causes chronic pure red cell aplasia in patients with AIDS and transient transient aplastic crisis in patients with sickle cell disease
Parvovirus B19
Treatment for PNH that reduces intravascular hemolysis, hemoglobinuria, and the need for transfusion
Eculizumab
First-line therapy in young patients with aplastic anemia (less than 40 years)
HSCT
Treatment for patients with AIDS and chronic parvovirus B19 infection
IV immune globulin
Most frequent cause of normocytic anemia
Inflammatory anemia
Serum ferritin level that rules out iron deficiency, even with inflammation
More than 100 ng/mL
Percentage of patients with iron deficiency with normal MCV
33%
Most common cause of microcytic anemia
Iron deficiency
First morphologic sign of iron deficiency
Hypochromia (decreased MCHC)
Most useful test in the diagnosis of iron deficiency
Serum ferritin
Standard treatment (and duration) for iron deficiency
Oral iron for 6 months
Homocysteine and methylmalonic acid levels in vitamin B12 deficiency
Both increased
Homocysteine and methylmalonic acid levels in folate deficiency
Elevated homocysteine, normal methylmalonic acid
Initial therapy for warm-antibody and cold agglutinin autoimmune hemolytic anemia
Corticosteroids
First-line therapy for hereditary spherocytosis and transfusion-dependent thalassemias
Splenectomy
Standard treatment for severe thalassemia and severe PNH
Stem cell transplantation
Supplement needed by all patients with hemolytic anemia
Folic acid
Best time to test for enzyme concentrations in G6PD deficiency
2-3 months after a hemolytic event
Diagnostic test for sickle cell syndromes
Hemoglobin electrophoresis
Transfusion target in sickle cell disease to avoid hyperviscosity
Hemoglobin less than 10 g/dL
Hemoglobin seen in alpha-thalassemia with three-gene deletion
Hemoglobin H (4 beta)
Hemoglobin seen in alpha-thalassemia with four-gene deletion resulting in hydrops fetalis
Hemoglobin Bart’s
Also known as Cooley anemia
Beta-thalassemia major
Drug-induced ITP is most often linked to these drugs
Quinine or quinidine
First-line therapy for ITP
Corticosteroids
Thrombopoiesis-stimulating agents used in refractory cases of ITP
Eltrombopag, romiplostim