RBC Flashcards
How do you asses acute blood loss
Reticulocytosis
When would you diagnose chronic anemia
Iron reserves are depleted
Clinical features of extravascular hemolysis
Anemia
Splenomegaly
Jaundice
Causes of intravascular hemolysis
Mechanical injury
Complement fixation
Intracellular parasites
Exogenous toxic factors
Morphologic intravasular hemolysis
EPO
Retic
Hemosiderosis
Pigment gallstones
Intrinsic defect
Autosomal dominant
Hereditary spherocytosis
What can triggered HS
Acute parvo virus infection
X linked recessive trait
Male affected
G6PD
Benefit of G6PD
Protection against plasmodium
What can trigger G6PD
Infections hep,pneumo and typhoid
Drugs
Fava beans
What can be seen with G6PD
Heinz bodies
Schistocytes
Spherocytes
Due to point mutation in the 6th codon glutamate to valine
Sickle cell diseasea
Major pathologic manifestation of SC
Chronic hemolysis
Mircovascular occlusion
Tissue damage
Most serious clinical feature of SC
Microvascular occlusion
Morphological feature of SC
Howell jolly bodies
New bone formation
Autosplenectomy