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RBC eval, Anemias due to blood loss, Hemolytic Anemias Flashcards

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Main protein in a RBC, that transports oxygen and carbon dioxide

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Hemoglobin

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What is Hematocrit?

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% of whole blood volume that is occupied by red cells

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How do you calculate Mean Corpuscular Volume (MCV)?

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Hematocrit/RBC

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How do you calculate Mean Corpuscular Hemoglobin (MCH)?

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Hgb/RBC

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How do you calculate Mean Corpuscular Hemoglobin Concentration (MCHC)?

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Hgb/Hematocrit

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Microcytic Anemia has a ___ MCV

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LOW

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Macrocytic Anemia has a ____ MCV

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HIGH

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Hypochromic Anemia has a ____ MCH

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LOW

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Red Cell Distribution Width (RDW) measures?

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The variability in size of RBCs in circulation

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Anisocytosis

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Increased RDW = Increased variability in size of RBCs

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Reticulocytes are immature erythrocytes. What do they contain that RBCs do not?

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RNA

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What stain can show the RNA that remains in Reticulocytes?

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Supravital stain - RNA appears polychromatic (purple-grey)

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With Acute Blood loss, what will the MCV and MCH be?

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Normal

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With Acute Blood loss, there is initially a LOW reticulocyte count. How long will it take for there to be an increase in reticulocytes?

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6-7 days after blood loss

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With Acute Blood loss, the anemia will manifest through LOW ____ 6-12 hours later

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Hemoglobin and Hematocrit

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With Chronic Blood loss, how do you get anemia?

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If the rate of loss exceeds the rate of replacement

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How does Chronic Blood loss present?

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Iron deficient Anemia

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Hemolytic anemias involve?

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Peripheral destruction of RBCs

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What attempts to compensate for Hemolytic anemias?

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Bone marrow

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Hereditary spherocytosis

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Mutations lead to unstable membrane skeletal proteins of the RBC

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Mutations lead to unstable membrane skeletal proteins of the RBC

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Hereditary Spherocytosis

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RBCs with Hereditary Spherocytosis are ____ deformable

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LESS

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When the RBCs with Hereditary Spherocytosis travel through the spleen, what occurs?

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They are quickly degraded

= splenomegaly/hypersplenism

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What is the treatment for Hereditary Spherocytosis and its side effects?

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Remove the spleen

- Increase in Howell - Jolly bodies

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What are Howell-jolly bodies and when are they seen?
DNA inclusions in RBCs that are normally removed by the spleen - They are seen in cases of Hereditary spherocytosis where the spleen has been removed, thus the bodies cannot be removed and they remain
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3 symptoms of Hereditary spherocytosis?
Anemia Splenomegaly Jaundice
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In conditions that over-rely on erythropoiesis (like hereditary spherocytosis), infection with what can cause an aplastic crisis (shut down of new RBCs)?
Parvovirus B19 - destroys erythroid precursors
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How is G6PD deficiency inherited?
X-linked recessive
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Under oxidative stress, how are normal cells protected?
- G6PD creates NADPH - NADPH helps create Reduced Glutathione - Reduced Glutathione can peroxidase free radicals and get rid of them
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Under oxidative stress, those with G6PD will see what symptoms?
Episodic hemolysis of RBCs a few days after exposure
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What are Heinz bodies?
Denaturation of proteins in RBCs caused by oxidative damage
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How are Heinz bodies removed and the remaining bite cells are seen with?
The spleen "bites" the heinz bodies to remove them | = bite cells are seen with G6PD deficiency
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Sickle Cell Anemia involves a mutation in the ____ chain = HgbS
beta chain | - glutamic acid --> valine
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Sickle cell trait
Heterozygous for HgbS
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Sickle cell disease
Homozygous for HgbS
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Populations with increased incidence of HgbS will have more?
Variants of Hgb
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With Sickle cell disease, RBCs polymerize and lengthen. What can cause this?
Hypoxia Sluggish blood flow and low pH Intracellular dehydration
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Sickled cells can undergo hemolysis and vaso-occlude blood flow = hypoxia (induce polymerization). Damage to the sickled cell membrane causes?
Increased adhesion - vaso-occlusion
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Treatment for Sickle cell Anemia?
Hydroxyurea (increased Hgb Fetal) Supportive care CRISPR
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What is a more mild version than Sickle cell (homozygous for SS Hgb)?
SC disease
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SC Disease involves Hgb C, what can it do?
Hgb C can crystallize but NOT polymerize
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What cells will you see with SC disease?
Target cells (poikilocytes) = abnormal shape
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How many genes are there for beta-globin?
2
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How many genes are there for alpha-globin?
4
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1 mutation in beta-globin
Beta-thalassemia trait or minor
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Symptoms of beta-thalassemia minor
Mild, microcytic anemia
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2 mutations in beta-globin
Beta-thalassemia major
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Symptoms of beta-thalassemia major
Severe anemia Extramedullary hematopoiesis Marrow expansion = crew cut appearance Switch to Hgb Fetal
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Severe anemia, extramedullary hematopoiesis, crew cut marrow expansion could indicate?
Beta-thalassemia major
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3 alpha-globin genes hit
Hb H disease
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Hb H disease has a tetramer of beta-globin. This has a ____ oxygen affinity which means?
HIGH affinity = poor oxygenator
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Symptoms of Hb H disease?
Anemia and splenomegaly
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Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria involves what mutations?
PIGA on the x chromosome - affect Hematopoietic stem cells
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PIGA mutations with Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria cause lack of?
CD55 and CD59 that bind complement
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Lack of CD55 and CD59 with Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria causes?
MAC to lyse RBCs at night = blood in urine and thrombosis
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Symptoms of Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria?
Blood in the urine at night and thrombosis
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Those with PNH are at risk for?
AML/MDS
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What drug can treat PNH by turning off the complement?
Eculizamab (blocks C5 -> C5a)
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Those being treated for PNH with Eculizamab are at risk for infections with?
Neisseria species
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Warm hemolytic anemia involves what Ig binding and where are the cells phagocytosed?
IgG | - phagocytosed in the spleen
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Cold hemolytic anemia involves what Ig binding and where/why are the cells phagocytosed where they are?
IgM | - c3b deposits and cells are phagocytosed in the spleen, bone marrow, liver
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Symptoms of cold hemolytic anemia?
Similar to Raynauds - nose and finger manifestations
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What is an example of red cell trauma that causes hemolysis?
Mechanical shear of the cells by a prosthetic heart valve

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