MLT 120 Exam II Flashcards
How are anemias classified according to cause?
Increase red cell destruction - hemolytic
decrease red cell production
How are anemias classified according to morphology?
Macrocytic/normo
Normocytic/normochromic
Microcytic/hypo
What are the symptoms of anemia?
depends on rate of onset of the anemia reduction of O2 transport to tissues reduction in blood volume increase cardiac output hypotension, fatigue
What is the peripheral blood picture in vitamin B12 and folate deficiency?
oval macrocyte
hypersegs
pacytopenia-increase plt, wbc, rbc
What do you see in the bone marrow of B12 and folate deficiency?
megaloblast
giant bands
WBC presursors
M:E ratio is lowered
What specifically causes pernicious anemia?
lack of intrinsic factor (IF)
What main clinical manifestations distinguishes vitamin B12 deficiency from folic acid deficiency?
neurological symptoms; B12 needed to make myelin sheaths
What conditions can produce non-megaloblastic macrocytic anemia?
liver disease
alcoholism
What poikilocytes are often seen in liver disease?
round macrocytes and target cells
What parameters are decreases in aplastic anemia and what bone marow precursor cells are decreased?
All
panctyopenia
What is the peripheral blood picture in aplastic anemia and what would the retic count be expected to be?
Normo/Normo no howell-jolly bodies basophilic stippling nRBC *no signs of increased RBC production*
shift to the left - bands
shift to the right - hyperseg
retic
What are the most common causes of aplastic anemia?
chemicals - benzene
drugs - chlorophenocol
decrease retic
Name several causes of myelophthisic anemia.
leukemia
metastatic carcinoma
lymphoma
multiple myeloma
What poikilocyte is especially associated with myelophthisic anemia because it indicates extramedullary hematopoiesis?
tear drop cels
What is the blood picture in chronic renal disease?
burr cell
helmet cell
Normo/Normo
What is the main cause of anemia due to renal disease and to what kidney function test is the anemia frequently proportional?
decrease erythropoietin production
BUN
What is the common characteristics of ALL hemolytic anemias?
increase red cell destruction
What are the characteristics of anemia due to chronic disorders?
Increase iron stores
N/N to M/H b/c iron not utilized properly
decrease serum iron
normal TIBC
What type of RBC abnormality result in hereditary spherocytosis and how does it affect the shape and OF of the RBC?
cell membrane abnormality
round but not concave; no room to take on extra liquid
What biochemical pathway involves the enzyme glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-P-D)?
HMP shunt
** hexose monophosphate pathway
What usually precipitates a hemolytic crisis in G6PD deficiency?
What inclusion does this deiciency produce?
presence of oxidizing agent
Heinz bodies-denucleated Hgb
What is the most unusual characteristic lab finding in ABO erythroblastosis of the newborn?
In AIHA?
spherocytes
Positive direct Coombs
How do PCH and PNH differ?
In which conditions is the Donath-Landsteiner antibody found?
PCH;cold hemoglobinuria is Not genetic-extracorpuscular; Ab extrinsic
PNH;nocturnal hemoglobinuria;genetic-intracorpuscular; Ab intrinsic-sensitive to complement
What RBC abnormality is responsible for the formation of burr cells and thorn cells?
cell wall membrane
A2 globin chains
alpha 2 delta 2