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Question 1

Stroke risk can be reduced in sickle cell anemia via____

Answer 1

routine transfusion

Question 2

________ is characterized by insidious symptoms of anemia, jaundice, splenomegaly, spherocytes on the peripheral blood smear, and direct antiglobulin (Coombs) test results that are strongly positive for IgG and negative or weakly positive for complement.

Answer 2

Warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia

Question 3

In a patient with a severe episode of acute migraine with aura that has been refractory to NSAIDs and a triptan, evidence-based guidelines support the use of intravenous dopamine antagonists, such as ______

Answer 3

prochlorperazine or metoclopramide.