PRELIM LEC: INTRODUCTION TO CLINICAL HEMATOLOGY Flashcards
Leeuwenhoek and others studied blood with the
aid of primitive microscope
17th century
Birth of science of studying blood/ birth of field of
hematology arises
17th century
Hematology is derived from the Greek words
haima meaning blood and logos meaning study or science
17th century
As a science, it has grown enormously in the last
70 years
17th century
His contribution to hematology is he
observed and discovered the 1st
RBC/erythrocyte
Leeuwenhoek
Believed that the human body is made up of 4
elements: Fire, air, water & earth
Aristotle
It is the field of science that deals with the
study of blood, blood component and
blood related disorders
Hematology
Using a microscope: studied the plague of victims
Athanasius Kircher
First completed the description of the circulatory
system
William Harvey
o Described that blood or there are worms
in blood of plague patients but the plague
strikes in the summer of 1647or 1646 in
Rome
Athanasius Kircher
the plague is known to be the
black death /bubonic plague
Causative agent of Black death:
Yersinia pestis (gram-negative)
BLACK DEATH VECTOR:
Rat Flea (Xenopsella cheopsis)
BLACK DEATH CHARACTERISTIC PATTERN:
Stalactite pattern
the cell clamps forming the
stalactite pattern
Stalactite pattern
Yersinia pestis is the bipolar
bodies:
B – Burkholderia pseudomallei
A- Aggregatibacter Actinomycetemcomitans
Y – Yersinia pestis
both have
a cauliflower appearance if cultured
Mycobacterium tuberculosis & Yersinia pestis
incubation period OF Yersinia pestis:
48 hrs
other species of Yersinia – causative agent of enterocolitis, often misdiagnosed as appendicitis because it has a charbay fever, diarrhea, and has right lower quadrant pain
Yersinia enterocolitica
incubation period OF Mycobacterium tuberculosis:
4-8 months
Can also cause fatality which is the worst case
scenario of patients that has been transfused with contaminated blood with packed RBC
Yersinia enterocolitica
1658:
Scrutinum P.M.
mother cell since this is where our WBC, RBC, megakaryocyte, leukocyte come from
Pluripotential stem cells
Pluripotential stem cells- mother cell since this is where our WBC, RBC, megakaryocyte, leukocyte come from
Jan Swammerdam
Discovered that RBCs are different from mother cells
Jan Swammerdam
that they have no nucleus and have a life span of 120 days
Marcello Malpighi
1666 – Pioneered the study of coagulation
Marcello Malpighi
1674 – first described the human erythrocyte and invented the 1st microscope
Antoine Philips Van Leeuwenhoek
father of microanatomical and physiology
Antoine Philips Van Leeuwenhoek
giardia lamblia in his stool
Antoine Philips Van Leeuwenhoek
1874- first described the complete classification of leukocytes
Gabriel Andral
1846 – first described the polymorphonuclear cell (more than one nucleus) from other cells
Wharton Jones
develop precursor of gram staining
Paul Ehrlich
1891 – found that certain mixtures of acidic and basic dyes produced better staining
Paul Ehrlich
german doctorbiologist
Paul Ehrlich
found cure of syphilis in 1909 and antiserum vepteria
Paul Ehrlich
1816-1895 – established that hemoglobin carried
oxygen
Karl Ludwig
1816-1895 – showed that carbon dioxide was
taken from tissues and released in the lungs
E.F. Pfluger
studies hemoglobin has oxygen
E.F. Pfluger
discover respiratory
E.F. Pfluger
Discovered the structure and function of hemoglobin
Max Perutz
Discovered Helicobacter pylori and the function of platelets
Giulio Bizzozero
It is a rapid urease producer
Helicobacter pylori
describe platelets as little plaques
Giulio Bizzozero
causative agent of Peptic ulcer:
Helicobacter pylori
Helicobacter pylori 2 types of diagnosis:
invasive (need to get G.I. biopsy/ stomach biopsy)
non-invasive (urea breath test)
Chief Pathologist in Pathology laboratory at the Massachusetts General Hospital
James Homer Wright
He described platelets as petechiae plates or tiny
plates
Giulio Bizzozero
Megakaryocyte origin of platelets
James Homer Wright
Platelets are not considered as true cell because they are only a fragment of the megakaryocyte
James Homer Wright
Modification of Romanowsky stain
1902
It is called Wright stain
Romanowsky stain
basic dye to stain nucleus because nucleus is acidic in nature
Methylene blue or Azer blue
combination of letters or words that are added in the front or back to form another word
Prefixes
will stain cytoplasm – acidic
pH
Eosin dye
a-/an-
Lack, without, absent, decrease
aniso-
Unequal, dissimilar
ante-
Before
Brady-
Slow
Through
Dia-
Cell
Cyto-