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Nutritional Anaemia Flashcards

1
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What is anaemia (according to WHO)?

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Condition in which the number of RBCs (and their oxygen carrying capacity) is insufficient to meet the body’s physiologic needs

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What does maturation of RBCs need?

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Vitamin B12 and folic acid
DNA synthesis
Iron
Haemoglobin
Vitamins
Erythropoeitin
Healthy bone marrow environment
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What are the mechanisms of action of anaemia?

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Failure of haemoglobin production
Ineffective erythropoeisis
Decreased survival

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What does a failure of haemoglobin production cause?

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Hypoproliferation and reticulocytopenia

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5
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What is reticulocytopenia?

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Not enough baby RBCs

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6
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What causes ineffective erythropoiesis?

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Enough ingredients but wrong instructions

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7
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What causes decreased survival of RBCs?

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Blood loss
Haemolysis
Reticulocytosis

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8
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What does MCV stand for?

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Mean cell volume

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What does MCV mean?

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Average size of RBCs

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10
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What does microcytic mean?

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Small MCV

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What does normocytic mean?

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Normal MCV

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12
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What does macrocytic mean?

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Large MCV

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13
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Which anaemias are microcytic?

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Iron deficiency
Thalassaemia
Chronic disease anaemia

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14
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Which anaemias are normocytic?

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Anaemia chronic disease
Aplastic 
Chronic renal failure
Bone marrow infiltration
Sickle cell disease
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15
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Which anaemias are macrocytic?

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B12 deficiency
Folate deficiency
Myelodysplasia
Alcohol induced
Drug induced
Liver disease
Myxoedema
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16
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Which is the most abundant trace element in the body?

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Iron

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17
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What is your daily requirement for iron?

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Depends on gender and physiological needs

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18
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How much iron is absorbed from the duodenum every day?

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1-2mg/day

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19
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What is plasma transferrin?

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Iron transport protein

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20
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Where does most of the iron in the body sit?

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In RBCs, bone marrow and spleen

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21
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How do you loose iron?

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Sloughed mucosal cells in the duodenum or menstruation

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22
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When does iron regulation happen?

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Absorption stage

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23
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What are the stable form(s) of iron?

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Ferric (3+)

Ferrous (2+)

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24
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What mechanism is iron absoption regulated by?

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Negative feedback of GI mucosal cells and hepcidin

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25
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What is hepcidin?

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Iron regulatory protein

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26
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How does hepcidin work?

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Causes the internalisation and degredation of ferroportin, which decreases iron transfer into the blood plasma from the duodenum

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27
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What does iron do in plasma?

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Attaches to transferrin and then transported to bone marrow

Binds to transferrin receptors on RBC precursors

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28
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What will iron deficiency do to ferritin/transferrin?

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Reduced ferritin stores and increased transferrin

29
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What does ferritin do?

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Primary storage protein and providing reserve, water soluble

30
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What does the transferrin saturation show you?

A

Ratio of serum iron and total iron binding capacity - revealing % of transferrin binding sites that have been occuptied by iron

31
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What is transferrin produced by?

A

Liver

32
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What is transferrin production inversely proportional to?

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Fe stores

33
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What is total iron binding capacity?

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Measurement of the capacity of transferrin to bind iron

Indirect measurement of iron

34
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Why is the ferritin test so unreliable?

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Ferritin is also involved in immune response, so infection may artificially increase ferritin

35
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With infection, how can you diagnose low ferritin?

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Increased transferrin

36
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What are the causes of iron deficiency?

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Poor diet
Malabsorption
Increased physiological needs
Loosing too much blood

37
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What can cause you to loose too much blood?

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Menstruation
GIT loss
Parasites

38
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How can you investigate iron deficiency?

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FBC, iron studies, blood film

39
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What are the symptoms of iron deficiency anaemia?

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Fatigue 
lethargy
Dizziness
Pale mucus membrane
Bounding pulse
40
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What are the lab signs of B12 and folate deficiency?

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Low Hb, high MCV with a normal MCHC

41
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What does megoblastic mean?

A

Low reticulocyte count

42
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What causes megaloblastic macrocytic anaemia?

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Vitamin B12/folic acid deficiency

Drug related

43
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What causes nonmegaloblastic macrocytic anaemia?

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Alcoholism
Hypothyroidism
Liver disease
Myelodysplastic syndromes
Reticulocytosis
44
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What is a source of vit B12?

A

Animal and dairy produce

45
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What is a source of folate?

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Vegetables and liver

46
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What is the adult daily requirement of vit B12?

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1-2 mcg

47
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What is the adult daily requirement of folate?

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100-150mcg

48
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Where is vit B12 absorbed?

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Ileum via intrinsic factor

49
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Where is folate absorbed?

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Duodenum and jejunum

50
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What are vit B12 and folate important for?

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RBC maturation
DNA synthesis
Thymidine triphosphate synthesis

51
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What are megaloblastic cells characterised by on the peripheral smear?

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Macrovalocytes and hypersegmented neutrophils

52
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What are the causes of folate deficiency?

A

Increased demand,
decreased intake,
decreased absorption

53
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What can cause increased folate demand?

A 
Pregnancy/breastfeeding
Infancy and growth spurts
Haemolysis and rapid cell turnover 
Disseminated cancer
Urinary losses
54
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What can cause decreased intake of folate?

A

Poor diet
Elderly
Chronic alcohol intake

55
Q

What can cause decreased folate absorption?

A

Medication
Coeliac
Jejunal resection
Tropical sprue

56
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What is vitamin B12 important for?

A

Cofactor for methylation in DNA and cell metabolism

57
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Where is vitamin B12 sourced from?

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Fish, meat and dairy

58
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What does vitamin B12 require the presence of to be absorbed into the terminal epithelium?

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Intrinsic factor

59
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Where is intrinsic factor made?

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Parietal stomach cells

60
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What molecules transport vitamin B12 to tissues?

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Transcobalmin I and II

61
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What causes impaired vit B12 absorption?

A

Pernicious anaemia
Gastrectomy or ileal resection
Zollinger-ellison syndrome
Parasites

62
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What causes decreased vit B12 intake?

A

Malnutrition

Vegan diet

63
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What are some congenital causes of vitamin B12 deficiency?

A

Intrinsic factor receptor deficiency

Cobalamin mutation CG1 gene

64
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What causes the increased vit B12 requirements?

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Haemolysis
HIV
Pregnancy
Growth spurts

65
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What medication causes vitamin B12 deficiency?

A

Alcohol
NO
PPI, H2 antagonists
Metformin

66
Q

What is pernicious anaemia?

A

Autoimmune disorder

67
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What does pernicious anaemia cause?

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Lack of vit B12 absorption or intrinsic factor

68
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Where is pernicious anaemia most prevelant?

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Low income areas

69
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What are the clinical consequences of pernicious anaemia?

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Brain: cognition, depression, psychosis
Neurology: sensory changes, spasticity, ataxia
Infertility
Cardiac cardiomyopathy
Tongue: glossitis, taste impairment
Blood: pancytopenia

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