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Normocytic Anemia with Extravascular Hemolysis Flashcards

1
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What lab value helps you determine if a normocytic anemia is from over destruction or underproduction?

A

RETC

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WHat is a normal RETC

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1-2%

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A properly functioning bone marrow responds to anemia by increasing the RETC to (blank)

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> 3%

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4
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T/F: RETC is falsely elevated in anemia

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true

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How is RETC falsely elevated in anemia?

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percentage of total RBCs, so if the total count of RBCs decreases, then the RETC looks higher than it should be

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6
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How do you calculate the corrected RETC?

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(Hct/45) x RETC

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7
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A corrected RETC >3% tells you what?

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good marrow response and suggests PERIPHERAL DESTRUCTION

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A corrected RETC <3% tells you what?

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bad marrow response and suggests UNDERPRODUCTION

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9
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T/F: intravascular and extravascular hemolysis both present as an anemia with a good marrow response

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true

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What are the following components of RBCs broken down into?

  1. globin
  2. heme
  3. protoporphyrin
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  1. amino acids
  2. iron and protoporphyrin; iron is recycled
  3. unconjugated bilirubin, bound ot serum albumin and delivered to the liver for conjugation and excretion into the bile
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Peripheral RBC destruction will result in (splenomegaly/HSM)

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splenomegaly only, but jaundice!

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12
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What painful dietary complication are pts at risk of developing with increased levels of bilirubin?

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bilirubin gallstones

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13
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T/F: peripheral blood cell destruction results in marrow hyperplasia

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true

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14
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Is this intravascular or extravascular?
Hemoglobinemia
Hemoglobinuria
Hemosiderinuria

A

INTRAvascular

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15
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Why do pts with intravascular hemolysis present with hemosiderinuria? When does this develop?

A

renal tubular cells pick up some of the hemoglobin that is filtered into the urine and break it down into iron, which accumulates as hemosiderin; tubular cells are eventually shed resulting in hemosiderinura.

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16
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Is serum haptoglobin increased or decreased in intravascular hemolysis?

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decreased; hapto is a scavenger molecule that will try to take up the free Hgb in the blood

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17
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What range of increased LDH would we see for extravascular hemolysis?

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500-700

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18
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What is the first organ to sense hypoxia and what hormone becomes elevated in extra. hemolysis?

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kidney; increased EPO

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In a chronic extravascular hemolysis, what characteristics of the anemia are added that complicate the DDx?

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increased folate requirements and iron deficiency which could make you think it was a folate def or simple iron def. anemia

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20
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What are the five things you think of when you see a macrocytic anemia?

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Folate def.
Vit. B12 def.
Alcoholism
MDS
Liver disease
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21
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What are the two things that increase the RETC count>?

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bleeding or hemolysis

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22
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If spherocytes are present on the peripheral smear, what are the only two things on your DDx?

A
  1. autoimmune hemolytic anemia

2. Hereditary spherocytosis

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23
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What other clues can we get from a CBC that lets us know that the cause of the anemia is from an underproduction in the bone marrow

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you will likely see that other cell lines are low too

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24
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What is the molecular cause of Hereditary spherocytosis? (HS)

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RBC cytoskeleton-membrane tethering proteins

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What three proteins are most commonly affected in HS>?

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ankyrin, spectrin, or band 3, protein 4.2

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WHat causes RBCs to become spherocytes in HS?

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formation and loss of membrane blebs

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27
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How does HS cause anemia?

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spherocytes cannot pass through splenic sinusoids and are consumed by the splenic macrophages

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28
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Spheroctyes have a (loss/increase) in central pallor

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loss

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29
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What changes would happen to these labs in HS?
RDW
MCHC

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increased RDW

increased MCHC

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30
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What complication of increased bilirubin presents in HS?

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bilirubin gallstones

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31
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T/F: pts with HS are normally jaundiced but have normal liver function

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true

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32
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Pts with HS are at an increased risk of (blank) post parvovirus B19 infection

A

aplastic crisis

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33
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How do you Dx HS?

A

osmotic fragility test; increased fragility

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34
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What is the Tx for HS?

A

splenectomy

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35
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What two cellular abnormalities persist on the peripheral smear after splenectomy in HS?

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spheroctyes and howell-jolly bodies

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36
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Sickle cell anemia (SCA) is caused by a single amino acid mutation in the beta chain from (blank to blank)

A

glu to val

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37
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SCA is protective against which strain of malaria?

A

malaria falciparum

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38
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When does SCA become sickle cell disease?

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mutation in both beta genes

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39
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what percent of Hgb is Hbs in sickle cell disease?

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> 90%

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40
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What happens to HbS when it is deoxygenated?

A

polymerizes into needle like structures and causes sickling

41
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T/F: HbS molecules covalently bind to each other to form a tetramer upon deoxygenation

A

false; they POLYMERIZE

42
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An increased risk of (blank) occurs with hypoxemia, dehydration, and acidosis when you have a fucked up beta gene

43
Q

What type of Hb is protective against sickling?

44
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Do we see SCA in newborns?

A

nope, HbF is protective for the first few months of life

45
Q

Tx with (blank) increases levels of HbF and is used in SCA

A

hydroxyurea

46
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T/F: In SCA, cells continuously sickle and de-sickle

47
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What is the result of dynamic sickling in SCA?

A

extravascular hemolysis b/c of damaged membranes

48
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T/F: SCA leads to elevated bilirubin and risk for bilirubin gallstones

49
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T/F: SCA presents with both intra and extravascular hemolysis

50
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What are the lab changes associated with intravascular hemolysis in SCA?

A

decreased serum haptoglobulin

51
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What cell type is seen on peripheral smear as a result of intravascular hemolysis in SCA?

A

TARGET CELLS

52
Q

cErythroid hyperplasia due to SCA results in extramedullary hematopoiesis with what three characteristic findings?

A

crew cut skull xray
chipmunk facies
HSM

53
Q

T/F: pts with SCA are risk of aplastic crisis

A

true, post parvovirus B19 infx

54
Q

Extensive sickling leads to complications of vaso-occlusion inluding (blank)

A

dactylitis

55
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Dactylitis is the vaso-occlusive event of swelling of the hands and feet from infarcts in the (bone/soft tissue)

56
Q

(blank) is a shrunken, fibrotic spleen in response to SCA

A

autosplenectomy

57
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Autosplenectomy results in an increased risk to (encapsulated/naked) pathogens

A

encapsulated

58
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Which encapsulated pathogens pose a significant risk to pts who have autosplenectomy?

A

S. pneumoniae and H. flu

59
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Pts with autosplenectomy have an increased risk of osteomyelitis caused by what bug>?

A

salmonella typhi

60
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What abnormality can be seen on peripheral smear in patients with autosplenectomy?

A

howell jolly bodies

61
Q

(blank) is a complication of SCA that is a vaso-occlusion in pulmonary micro-circulation

A

acute chest syndrome

62
Q

Acute chest pain presents with pain, SOB, and lung (blank)

A

infiltrates

63
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What precipitates acute chest syndrome in pts with SCA

64
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What is the most common cause of death of adult SCA pts?

A

acute chest syndrome

65
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what is the most common cause of death of children with sCA?

A

H. flu infection

66
Q

The increased transit time of sickled RBCs through pulmonary circulation leads to increased acidemia, hypoxia, and dehydration which all promote further (blank)

67
Q

Renal papillary necrosis in SCA results in gross (blank and blank)

A

hematuria and proteinuria

68
Q

Sickle cell trait produces what percent of HbS?

69
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T/F: pts with sickle cell trait are normally anemic

A

false; RBCs with less than fifty percent HbS do not sickle in vivo unless in extreme circumstances

70
Q

T/F: pts with sickle cell trait have a hard time concentrating urine

71
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What screening test is used to test for HbS in both the trait and disease?

A

metabisulfite; will cause sickling

72
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What percent HbS and HbF is present in sickle cell disease?

A

90% HbS, 8%HbF

73
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What percent of HbS is present in sickle cell trait?

74
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What is the amino acid substitution that results in HbC?

A

glu to LYSINE

75
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What causes the anemia in HbC?

A

extravascular hemolysis

76
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What is the characteristic finding on peripheral smear of HbC?

A

HbC crystals

77
Q

What is the most common protein to be altered in hereditary spherocytosis?

78
Q

Hereditary elliptocytosis is due to a defect in what two proteins?

A

spectrin tetramers or 4.1

79
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T/F: hereditary elliptocytosis presents with mild anemia and splenomegaly

80
Q 
What disease presents this way?
Stroke
gallstones
priapism
aseptic necrosis of femoral head
aplastic crisis post ParvoB19 infx
A

sickle cell anemia

81
Q

What vitamin should pts with sCA take?

A

folic acid supplementation

82
Q

Pts with G6PD def. have a susceptibilty to infections because they have an impaired (MPO/NADPH) oxidase system

83
Q

In what type of IHA is Raynaud’s common?

A

IgG mediated cold agglutinin

84
Q

What are the alloimmune causes of IHA?

A

Rh hemolytic disease of the newborn
ABO mismatch
Hemolytic transfusion rxn

85
Q

Drug induced IHA is (direct/indirect) coomb’s positive

A

direct coomb’s

86
Q

IgG normally does (intra/extra)vascular hemolysis

A

IgG is extra

IgM is intra

87
Q

What gene is involved in PNH?

A

PIG-A gene

88
Q

T/F: PNH will present with pancyotpenia

89
Q

T/F: PNH will present with decreased haptoglobulin

90
Q

RBCs are damaged by (blank) buildup in DIC

91
Q

A long distance runner may suffer what type of hemolysis?

92
Q

Snake venoms, malaria, babesia, burns, and clostridium perfringens cause what type of anemia?

A

non-immune hemolytic anemia

93
Q 
Describe the following lab values in regard to hemolytic disease of the newborn:
DAT
Total and indirect bili
LDH
HCT and Hgb
A
  1. pos DAT
  2. increased total and indirect bili
  3. increased LDH
  4. INITIALLY HCT and Hgb WNL
94
Q

At what level of BUN does uremia present with anemia?

A

when BUN is twice normal

95
Q

What type of cells are seen on peripheral smear in uremia?

A

Burr cells (echinocytes) spiny projections

96
Q

T/F: traumatic hemolysis can form burr cells

97
Q

Describe the size and color of uremic anemia

A

norchromic normocytic with MILD anisocytosis

98
Q

Anemia with neoplasia will be normocrhomic normocytic anemia unless…(three things)

A
  1. blood loss
  2. hemorrhage
  3. myelophthistic process
99
Q

What is the most common cause of nonmegaloblastic macrocytic anemia?

A

alcoholism

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