Topic 9 - Blood Flashcards
What is an artery?
Brings blood (generally oxygenated) to the heart from the organs and tissues
What is a vein?
Returns blood (generally deoxygenated) from the organs and tissues to the heart
What happens to the blood in one pump of the heart?
- Deoxygenated blood from tissues/organs travels through the Vena Cava into the right atrium.
- Right ventricle pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs.
- Valves prevent backflow.
- Reoxygenated blood travels from the lungs to the left atrium through the pulmonary vein.
- Left ventricle pumps blood via the Aorta to the tissues and organs.
What are the functions of the blood?
- Hydration of tissues and organs
- Delivery of oxygen to tissues and organs
- Provision of nutrients to tissues and organs
- Fight infection: innate and adaptive responses
- Regulation of body temperature and pH
- Distribution of endocrine hormones
- Prevent it’s own (blood) loss
Which WBCs contribute to immune response to allergic reactions?
- Eosinophils
- Basophils
What are endocrine hormones?
They are secreted directly to the blood stream.
What are exocrine hormones?
They are secreted through ducts opening on to an epithelium rather than directly into the blood.
How does blood prevent it’s own loss?
- Platelets (small anucleate cells that clump together)
- Blood coagulation pathway (through the formation of thrombin a fibrin clot is formed)
What is the common progenitor cell that all blood cells are derived from?
The multipotential haematopoietic stem cell
What are the two major lineages of blood cells?
- Myeloid
- Lymphoid
Which two blood cells can be found in body tissues?
- Mast cells
- Macrophages
Which 5 blood cells are found in the blood marrow?
- Hemocytoblast (stem cell)
- Common myeloid progenitor
- Megakaryocyte
- Myeloblast
- Common lymphoid progenitor
Which 11 blood cells can be found within blood specifically?
- Platelets
- Basophil
- Neutrophil
- Eosinophil
- Monocyte
- Natural killer cell (large granular lymphocyte)
- Small lymphocyte
- T lymphocyte
- B lymphocyte
- Plasma cell
How can plasma be separated from blood cells?
Centrifugation
What volume of blood is blood plasma?
55%
What are the 3 most abundant blood plasma proteins?
- Albumin
- Immunoglobulins
- Fibrinogen
What is blood serum?
Plasma without the clotting factors
What percentage of blood is taken up by RBC?
45%
What occurs if incompatible blood groups are mixed?
Antibodies in the plasma reacts with antigens on the RBC membrane, causing haemolysis.
Potential complication during blood transfusion/pregnancy.
What is the ABO blood group?
Based on the carbohydrate antigen present on the RBC membrane. A, AB, B and O types.
Which ABO blood type is a universal donor?
O
Which ABO blood type is a universal acceptor?
AB
What are the main symptoms of an acute hemolytic reaction?
- Hypotension
- Kidney failure
- Bleeding
- Chills/Fever
- Hemoglobinuria
What is Hemoglobinuria?
Haemoglobin in the urine due to erythrocyte lysis
What is the Rhesus blood group?
Based on the ion-channel antigen (D-antigen) on the RBC membrane
When does haemolytic disease occur during pregnancy?
Rh- (no D-antigen) woman and a Rh+ fetus (D-antigen).
During birth some foetal blood enters mothers system causing an immune response. In a following pregnancy the immune response will be much larger and will attack the foetus.
How can haemolytic syndrome in a foetus be treated?
Intramuscular injection of mother with Rh antibody at 28 weeks, 34 weeks and within 72 hours after delivery. Intrauterine transfusion via umbilical cord may be necessary.
What are the diseases of blood plasma?
- Bleeding
- Thrombosis
- Hereditary angioedema
- Complement deficiency
What are the diseases of the blood cells?
- Haematological malignancies
- Sickle cell anemia
- Thalassaemia
- Haemoglobinopathies
- Leukopenia
- Thorombocytopenia
- Infectious mononucleosis
What are haemoglobinopaties?
Genetic defect that results in abnormal structure of one of the globin chains of the hemoglobin molecule. eg. Thalassaemia and Sickle cell anemia
What are diseases affecting the platelets called?
Thrombocytopaenias
What is a leukopenia?
A decrease in the number of leukocytes found in the blood, which places individuals at increased risk of infection.
What may cause bleeding?
- Acute injury
- Chronic disease
- Low platelet count
- Coagulation deficiencies
- Vitamin K deficiency
- Drugs
- Liver disease
- Infection/sepsis
- Aneurysm repture
Which drugs can cause bleeding?
- Aspirin
- Warfarin
- Heparin
What is the ultimate killer in heart disease and stroke?
Thrombosis
What are the causes of thrombosis?
- Atherosclerosis
- Cancer
- Immobilisation
- Surgery
- Hypercoagulability
- Thrombocythaemia
- Factor V Leiden
Why does hypercoagulability occur?
Inhibitor deficiencies - PC, PS, AT
What is atherosclerosis?
A disease in which plaque builds up inside your arteries
What is neoplasia?
Uncontrolled cell growth. May be benign/malignant (therefore not necessarily cancer)
Which two classes of genes are implicated in neoplasia?
Tumour suppressor genes
Oncogenes
What are oncogenes?
Genes directly causative of cancer – includes growth factors and their receptors, DNA binding proteins
What are tumour suppressor genes?
Loss of suppressor activity leads to cancer.
What initiates cancer?
- point mutations (UV, radiation, carcinogens)
- chromosome translocation
- viral genes
Which retrovirus is associated with leukemia?
Human T-Lymphotropic Virus (HTLV-1)
What is an example of a cancer caused by chromosomal translocation?
Burkitt’s Lymphoma
How are haemotological malignancies classified?
Blood cell lineage (myeloid neoplasm/lymphoid neoplasm)
Location (leukemia - blood/lymphoma - lymph nodes)
What cells are the precursors of platelets?
Megakaryocytes
What are Myeloproliferative disorders?
A group of slow-growing blood cancers in which the bone marrow makes too many abnormal red blood cells, white blood cells, or platelets, which accumulate in the blood
What are some myeloproliferative disorders?
- Myeloid neoplasia
- Polycythaemia (^ RBC)
- Thrombocythaemia (^ platelets)
- Myelofibrosis (^ megakaryocyte)
- Chronic myeloid leukemia (^ granulocytes)
What does leukemia result in?
Accumulation of WBC in the bone marrow and blood, bone marrow failure.
Decrease in RBC, platelets and eventually WBC themselves in advanced disease.
-blood hyperviscosity
-infection
-tiredness/anemia
-bleeding
-bone pain in children
What is lymphoma?
T or B lymphocyte neoplasia - affecting the lymph nodes
What are the typed of lymphoma?
Non-Hodgkin and Hodgkin
How is Hodgkin lymphoma characterised?
By Reed-Sternberg cells
Where do Reed-Sternberg cells originate?
B lymphocytes, which become enlarged and are multinucleate or have a bilobed nucleus.
What is anemia?
Loss of oxygen delivery
What are the haemoglobin levels in anemia?
<13.5 g/dl (men)
<11.2 g/dl (women)