Oral Medicine III - Fishiale Flashcards
Aplastic Anemia is a ______anemia
due to bone marrow ____ or _____
A common cause of what?
normocytic
hypoplasia, aplasia
Pancytopenia
What is the complication of Pancytopenia?
This is due to different anemias causing what 3 symptoms?
Pancytopenia leads to anemia, ______ and ______ due to leukopenia
Bleeding disorders
weakness, fainting, lethargy
thrombocytopenia, infection
Aplastic Anemia is ____ idiopathic
Secondary due to bone marrow suppression drugs or what 4 other causes?
2/3
Cytotoxic drugs (nsaids/chemo/anticonvulsants)
Viral infection (CMV, EBV, HIV)
Radiation therapy
Benzene
Only known Tx for idiopathic aplastic anemia:
secondary anemia:
Marrow transplant
remove cause (Benzene, etc)
Megaloblastic anemias are caused by what?
RBC’s look like…
Deficient B12 or Folic Acid
megaloblasts, large, Blue Inclusions (basophilic stippling)
Most common type of Megaloblastic Anemia?
Define:
Pernicious anemia
no IF, no B12 absorption
Groups more likely to get Pernicious Anemia:
Most common in what stage of life?
Rare when?
Irish, English, Scandinavian
late in adult life
under 30
A genetic predisposition is suspected in pernicious anemia, but not proven
True
What condition often accompanies Pernicious Anemia?
This may explain the pathogenesis via what mechanism?
Atrophic Gastritis
alcohol/tobacco
No IF in pernicious anemia is due to what?
no gastric parietal cells
Extravascular Hemolysis:
_____ is converted to ______
by the ________ at a RATE LIMITING STEP
causes what 2 things?
overabundance of RBC’s destroyed in Spleen
HEME to Bilirubin
Liver
Hyperbilirubinemia, Jaundice
What happens in Mononuclear Phagocytic cells of the Spleen?
Extravascular Hemolysis
*not intravascular
90% of pts with Pernicious Anemia have what?
Antibodies to Parietal cells
*no IF
Diagnosis of Pernicious Anemia:
Schilling Test
radioactive Cobalamine absorption
IF + B12 complex usually absorbed where?
If Pernicious Anemia bad enough what can happen?
CNS lesions found in 3/4 of cases, partial gastrectomy possible, and dreaded _____
terminal ileum small intestine
Heart Failure
fish tapeworm infection
Lack of Folic Acid (other megaloblastic anemia) is due to what 3 conditions?
Pregnancy
Alcoholics
Malnourished
What is a reason for Intravascular hemolysis?
Mismatched blood transfusion
What is the most common type of Anemia?
Bone marrow is…
blood cells are…
Iron Deficiency
Hyperplastic
Hypochromic, Microcytic
Antidote for Heavy metal poisoning by thallium and radioactive caesium, orally administered.
Also test for Iron Deficiency
Prussian Blue
Space occupying lesions destroying marrow (cancer)
Myelophthistic Anemia
Most common human enzyme defect anemia:
G6PD deficiency anemia
Anemia of Mediterranean
Alpha chromo
Beta chromo
Thalassemia
16
11
Pathogenesis, Sickle Cell anemia substitution:
At position:
What chain:
Valine replaces Glutamic Acid
6
Beta chain Hb
Sickling Crisis brought about by what?
Causes what?
spontaneously, fever, hypoxia
Infarcts (neuro, bones, spleen, extremities)
Consequence of Sickling Crisis infarcts to Spleen?
Fibrotic
Autosplenectomy
3 Physical consequences to Sickle Cell?
Skull bossing (marrow hyperplasia, “hair on end”)
Dactylitis (back of hand swelling)
Infections
Normal is Hb A
Sickle cell is Hb S
True
Unlike B12, Folate doesn’t need:
Folate deficiency, no _____ signs/symptoms
Folate seen in ______ compared to B12
IF
neuro
Prego
Folic Acid Deficiency more common than B12 deficiency
Symptoms similar, except what?
True
no Neuro in Folic
Spontaneous, or can be aggravated by Fever, Resp distress, other hypoxia
Hemolytic/Vasoocclusive Crisis
Iron Deficiency is #1 cause of Anemia, what is #1 cause of Iron deficiency?
Acute Blood Loss
1 cause Fe anemia:
Reason for Iron Deficiency Anemia in Males:
in Females, _____ , then ______
GI
Reproductive, GI
acute blood loss
Sickle Cell can cause what in the Spleen?
Bones:
Backs of Hands/Feet:
Increased…
Autosplenectomy
Hair on End (bossing)
Dactylitis in children
Infections (facilitated by Spleen/Liver)
3 Ways Pernicious Anemia is Diagnosed:
Low B12
Schilling Test (Oral Cyanobobalamine)
Over 90% antibodies to IF from Parietal Cells
What are the 2 most common reasons for Microcytic Anemia?
What are the 2 most common reasons for Megaloblastic Anemia?
Fe Deficiency, Thallassemia
B12, Folic acid
What are the 3 features of Megaloblastic Anemia on a peripheral blood smear?
Megaloblasts (decreased #, but larger)
Hypersegmentation of Neutrophils
Basophilic Stippling of Erythrocytes (megaloblasts)
What is a Reticulocyte?
How are they used in diagnosing disease?
Immature RBC
When high, indicates disease (bone marrow compensation for low RBC’s in blood)
What is characteristic of a Myeolophthistic Anemia?
Metastatic Cancer