Hematology Flashcards
What is a Neutrophil?
The phagocyte (has anti-microbials, most abundant)
What is a Eosinophil?
The parasite destroyer, allergy inducer
What is a Basophil?
The Allergy Helper (IgE receptor=> histamine release)
What is a Monocyte?
The Destroyer=> MP (hydrolytic enzymes, coffee-bean nucleus)
What is a Lymphocyte?
The Warrior=>T, B, NK cells
What is a Platelet?
The Clotter (no nuclei, smallest cells)
What is a Blast?
Baby Hematopoietic cell
What is a Band?
Baby Neutrophil
What does high WBC and high PMNs tell you?
Stress demargination
What does high WBC and <5% blasts tell you?
Leukemoid reaction, seen in burn patients (extreme demargination looks like leukemia)
What does high WBC and > 5% blasts tell you?
Leukemia
What does high WBC and bands tell you?
Left shift=> have infection
What does high WBC and B cells tell you?
Bacterial infection
What diseases have high eosinophils?
“NAACP”
Neoplasm Allergy/ Asthma Addisons disease (no cortisol -> relative eosinophilia Collagen vascular disease Parasites
What diseases have high monocytes (>15%)?
“STELS”
Syphilis: chancre, rash, warts TB: hemoptysis, night sweats EBV: teenager sick for a month Listeria: baby who is sick Salmonella: food poisoning
What do high retics (>1%) tell you?
RBC being destroyed peripherally
What do low retics tell you?
Bone marrow not working right (decrease production)
What is Poikilocytosis?
Different shapes
What is Anisocytosis?
Different sizes
What is the RBC lifespan?
120 days
What is the platelet lifespan?
8-10 days
What does -penia tell you?
Low levels (usually due to virus or drugs)
What does -cytosis tell you?
High levels
What soes -cythemia tell you?
High levels
What is the difference between plasma and serum?
Plasma:no RBC
Serum:no RBC or fibrinogen
What is Chronic Granulomatous Disease?
NADPH oxidase deficiency -> recurrent Staph/Aspergillus infections (Nitroblue Tetrazolium stain negative)
What does MPO deficiency cause?
Catalase + infections
What is Chediak Higashi?
Lazy lysosome syndrome: lysosomes are slow to fuse around bacteria
What organ can make RBCs if the longbones are damaged?
Spleen => splenomegaly
What causes a shift to the right in the Hb curve?
“All CADETs face right”
^CO2 Acid/Altitude 2,3-DOG Exercise Temp
How does CO poison Hb?
Competitive inhibitor of O2 on Hb => cherry red lips, pinkish skin hue
How does Cyanide poison Hb?
Non competitive inhibitor of O2 on Hb => almond breath
What is MetHb?
Hb w/ Fe+3
What is Acute Intermittent Porphyria?
^Porphyrin, urine delta-ALA, porphobilinogen => abdominal pain, neuropathy, red urine
What is Porphyria Cutanea Tarda?
Sunlight=> skin blisters w/porphyrin deposits,
Woods lamp= orange-pink
What is Erythrocytic Protoporphyria?
Porphyria cutanea tarda in a baby
What is Sickle cell disease?
Homozygous HbS: (BGlut6->Val) vaso-occlusion, necrosis, dactylitis (painful fingers/toes) at 6mo, protects against malaria
What is Sickle cell trait?
Heterozygous HbS => painless hematuria, sickle with extreme hypoxia (can’t be a pilot, fireman, diver)
What is Hb C disease?
(BGlu6->Lys), still charged => no sickling
What is alpha-thalassemia?
1 deletion:normal
2 deletions “trait”: Microcytic anemia
3 deletions: Hemolytic anemia, Hb H=B4
4 deletions: hydrops fetalis, Hb Bart= Gamma 4
What is B thalassemia?
1 deletion “B minor”: ^HbA2 and HbF
2 deletions “trait/intermedia/major”: only HbA2, and HbF => hypoxia at 6 months
What is Cooley’s anemia?
See w/B thalassemia major (o HbA=>excess RBC production); baby making blood from everywhere=> frontal bossing hepatosplenomegaly, long extremities
What is Virchow’s triad?
Thrombosis risk factors:
1) Turbulent blood flow “slow”
2) Hypercoagulable “sticky”
3) Vessel wall damage “escapes”
What does acute hypoxia cause?
Shortness of breath
What does chronic hypoxia cause?
Clubbing of fingers/toes
What is intravascular hemolysis?
RBC destroyed in blood vv. -> low haptoglobin (bind free floating Hb)
What is extravascular hemolysis?
RBC destroyed in spleen (problem w/RBC membrane) => splenomegaly
What enzyme need lead (Pb)?
delta- ALA dehydrase
Ferrochelatase
What does EDTA bind?
X2+
What disease has a smooth philthrum?
Fetal alcohol syndrome
What disease has a long philthrum?
William’s
What disease has a sausage digits?
Pseudo-hypoparathyroidism, psoriatic arthritis
What disease has 6 fingers?
Trisomy 13
What disease has 2 joined thumbs?
Diamond-Blackfan
What disease has painful fingers?
Sickle cell disease
What are the Microcytic Hypochromic anemias?
"FAST Lead" Fe deficiency Anemia of chronic disease Sideroblastic anemia alpha-Thalasemmia B-Thalasemmia Pb poisoning
Fe deficiency
^ TIBC, menses, GI bleed, koilonychia
Anemia of Chronic Disease
decrease TIBC
Sideroblastic Anemia
decrease Delta-ALA synthase, blood transfusions
alpha thalassemia
AA, Asians, (Chromosome 16 deletion)
B Thalassemia
Mediterraneans (Chromosome 11 point mutation)