Heme/Onc Flashcards
Heme synthesis precursors
succinyl-Coa and glycine
General cause of microcytic/hypochromic anemia
Hb synthesis impairment
General cause of macrocytic/normochromic anemia
impaired DNA synthesis
Cyclic flu-like sx
seizures
hemoglobinuria
sausage shaped organisms of microscopy
Plasmodium falciparum (malaria) worst type P vivax and P. ovale cause relapsing sx
Tx for malaria
chloroquine for nonsevere
quinine/quinidine for severe
primaquine for vivax/ovale (liver hypnozoite stage)
Doxycycline for prophylaxis
All drugs use caution with G6PD deficiency or pregnancy
Pear shaped trophoziotes
maltese cross seen
hemolytic anemia
Babesiosis
caused by black legged tick (ixodes scapularis), same is B. burgdorferi (Lyme’s)
Hx of African travel
chancre
pruritis/fever
progresses into seizures/somnolence
Trypanosoma brucei, african sleeping sickness
tsetse fly vector
hemolytic and CNS stages
tx with suramin for hemolytic, melarsoprol for CNS
unilateral painless periorbital edema in a child
anorexia and lesion of inflammation
chronic cardio and GI pathology
Trypanosomia cruzi (Chagas disease)
Romana’s sign and chagoma seen
vector is reduviid (kissing) bugs
Dx for Trypanosomiasosis
Giemsa stain smear
Ulcerating lesions that spontaneously heal
Lesions on nasal mucosa with erosion
skin blackens/systemic infection
Tx with Na+ stibogluconate
Leishmaniasis
L. braziliensis causes erosion on face
L. donovani causes black poison/Kalaazar (visceral necrosis)
Vector is sandflies
Intrinsic clotting pathway
Factor XII, XI, IX, X (in that order)
Extrinsic clotting pathway
Factor VII to X
Common clotting pathway
Factor X & V, thrombin, fibrin (in that order)
Stimulators of clotting pathways
intrinsic-kallikrein/kininogen
extrinsic-trauma to vasculature
Clot formation pathway (from thrombin)
thrombin cleaves fibrinogen to fibrin
fibrin aggregates with platelets (via GP IIb/IIIa)
factor XIIIa cross links to hard clot (via Lysine covalent bond to N-terminus)
Endogenous inhibits of clotting
thrombomodulin (activates protein C/binds thrombin)
heparan sulfate (activates ATIII)
prostacycline (inhibits platelet aggregation)
Protein C inactiveas factors Va and VIIIa
Factor VIII deficiency
hemarthrosis
Hemophilia A
X linked recessive
Factor IX deficiency
hemarthrosis
Hemophilia B
X linked recessive
AD inheritance
decreased factor VIII delivery
mucous membrane bleeding
von Willebrand disease
normal platelet counts
ineffective protein C/S coagulation inactivation
AD
hypercoaguability
Factor V Leiden mutation
factor V resistant to protein S/C inactivation
Levels of this protein decrease with active intravascular hemolysis
Haptoglobin
bind free Hb
protects kidney from Hb
AR
bronze skin color
diabetes sx
dx with hepatocellular carcinoma
Hemochromatosis
defect in HFE gene (chromosome 6)
excessive iron storage
Levels of molecule are eleveated in multiple myeloma
gamma-globulin
Petechial rash starts from limbs and moves to trunk
tx with doxycycline
Rickettsia rickettsii
dog/wood tick vector
Rocky Mountain spotted fever
liver/brain/skin sx
Mite vector/mice reservoir
papule at bite site, crusts over
Rickettsia akari
Rickettsial pox
body lice vector/flying squirrel
pink macules on upper trunk, spread outward
Rickettsia prowazekii
epidemic typhus
Brill-Zinsser Disease (recurrence years later)
Flea vector
U.S. Gulf coast
rash on chest and abd
Rickettsia typhi
endemic typhus
low mortality
Chiggers/mites/rodents vector
scab at bite site
flat maculopapular rash
Orientia tsutsugamushi
scrub typhus
Asia and SW pacific
Infection of WBC’s
tick vector
rash with thrombocytopenia
Ehrlichiosis
Monocyte-E. chaffeensis
Granulocyte-Anaplasma phagocytophilum
morulae on Giemsa stain
Tick vector
US NE/Wisconsin
tx with doxycycline
Borrelia burgdorferi
bulls eye rash
migratory arthralgias
Recent trip to Hawaii for surfing
invasion of CSF and blood
recurring sx
Leptospira interrogans animal urine is cause Weil Syndrome (liver/blood/CNS)
Poor hygiene
bone pain in back/legs
recurs every 5 days
Bartonella quintana
trench fever
tx with doxy
Trip to South America
anemia
Sandfly vector
blood filled nodules in skin
Bartonella bacilliformis
oroya fever/carrion disease
infects RBCs
Low serium Fe and ferritin
increased TIBC
GI bleed
iron deficiency anemia
microcytic/hypochromic
Microcytic anemia
esophageal webs
Plummer-Vinson syndrome
also see atrophic glossitis
Hypersegmented neutrophils (5+nuclei)
vision loss
loss of sensory/motor
Pernicious anemia, megaloblastic (B12 deficiency)
macrocytic/normochromic
AR
defect in DNA repair
aplastic anemia
Fanconi’s syndrome
Assc with aplastic anemia
thymoma
Jaundice/anemia
increased LDH and reticulocytes
decreased Hb and haptoglobin
Hemolytic anemia
increased osmotic fragility
round RBCs
splenomegaly
Hereditary spherocytosis
mutated spectrin/ankyrin/band 3 or 4.2 protein
AD in whites
Aplastic crisis with hereditary spherocytosis assc
parvovirus B19
Bite and spherocyte RBCs
Heinz bodies in RBCs
AR in blacks/mediterannean
G6PD deficiency
lack of NADPH to reduce GS
causes oxidative damage to RBCs
Chronic hemolytic anemia AR in blacks vessel occlusions splenomegaly gallstones
Sicke Cell disease
Glutamate to Valine at pos 6 on beta globin
Heterozygote malarial resistance
Bug risks for Sickle Cell
encapsulated organism infection
aplastic crisis with parvovirus B19
osteomyelolitis with salmonella
Hb Bart (gamma tetramers) in blood early death
Alpha-thalassemia (hydrops fetalis)
all 4 genes deleted
IgG against RBC Ags
spherocytes/splenomegaly
direct Coomb’s test (+)
Warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia
hapten or drug + RBC=new Ag
IgM against RBC’s
worse in winter
assc with MGUS
Cold autoimmune hemolytic anemia
pentamers bind in cold periphery, release when returning to body core
Causes complement/hemolysis
RBCs lack CD55 and CD59
chronic hemolysis
hypercoaguable
Paroxysmal noctural hemoglbinuria
CD55/CD59 usually prevents complement
lysis by endogenous complement
depletion of coagulation factors
concurrent clotting and fibrinolysis
has promyelocytic leukemia
Disseminated intravascular coagulation
assc with infection/malignancy
uncontrolled fibrinolytic &clotting system activation
Schistocytes
neuro/kidney sx
lg bruises
Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
Abs or defect of ADAMTS13
pentad of sx FAT RN
AR
increased bleeding
platelet aggregations in blood
Bernard Soulier syndrome
defect in IbIX on platelet
cannot bind subendothelium
AR
increased bleeding
normal platelet morphology
Glanzmann Thrombasthenia
defect in IIb/IIIa
platelets cannot bind fibrinogen
Risk of thienopyridines
can cause TTP (especially ticlopidine)
inhibit ADP/platelet aggregation
ticlopidine/clopidogrel/prasugrel
Clopidogrel drawback
poor responders due to being a prodrug
Prasugrel contraindications
over 75
TIA or CVA hx
less than 60kg
Only nonthienopyridine ADP antagonist
ticagrelor
GP IIb/IIIa inhibitors
abciximab
eptifibatide
tirofiban
they prevent fibrinogen platelet aggregation
Phosphodiesterase inhibitors for anticoagulation
dipyridamole
cilostazol
for tx of ambulatory claudication