CHAPTER: Heme Onc Flashcards

1
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What is the difference between ornithine transcarbamylase def vs UMP synthase defect?

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Orotic aciduria = UMP synthase problem
- AR
- Kid who presents with megaloblastic anemia that doesn’t respond to B12 (cobal) or B9 (folate) supplements - WHY? because these are the 2 things you think of causing this problem, but the issue generating pyrimidines is actually converting orotic acid -> UMP
Difference = NO hyperammonemia
Treat: + UMP
OTD - orotic acid AND ammonia high in urine

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What is Diamond Blackfan anemia

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Defective erythoid precursor cells -> anemia before 1 yo
Normocytic `anemia - aka low total Hgb but of that, higher percentage HgF (2a, 2g) than expected
Short stature
Craniofacial abnormalities
UE deform = 3 joints in the thumb

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Fe def anemia

  1. Where absorbed in GI
  2. Symptoms
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@ duodenum - unlikely you’d lose your duodenum in surg - instead think GASTRECTOMY b/c less acid ↑Fe 3>2 (less absorbed)
Fatigue + pallor
**PICA, spoon nails

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4
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Connect Plummer Vinson syndrome to Fe def anemia

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PV triad:
Fe def anemia
Esophageal webs -> dysphagia

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5
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Disease that produces HgH

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3 mutated alpha alleles (chr 16)
Tetramers of beta form = HgH
Severe alpha thal anemia (RBC damage)

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6
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Disease that produced HgBarts

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4 mutated alpha alleles (chr 16)
Tetramers of gamma
Fetal hydrops

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Patho RBC seen in B thal minor

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B/B+, ↑2 alpha, 2 delta (Hgb A2)

TARGET CELL

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You know that B thal major means no B globin. Therefore, get tetramers of alpha once babies lose gamma globin. SO what does this mean for clinical picture

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A2A2 causes RBC damage - don’t all make it out of bone marrow
Body sees ANEMIA -> ↑EPO = bone marrow hyperplasoa
1. Crew cut skill XR, large facial bones
2. ↑spleen + liver size (↑risk parvo b19 infection)

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9
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Treat B thal major

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Blood transfusions

SE: hemochromatosis

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10
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2 enzymes blocked by lead poisoning

2 RBC findings of lead poisoning

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  1. ALAD - can’t get precursors out of mitochondria
  2. Ferrocheletase - can’t join PP + Fe to make heme
    Fe builds up in mitochondria (where would be joined) ringed sideroblasts
    Fe overloaded state explains the lab findings:
    ↑ferattin, ↓TIBC, ↑serum Fe ↑% sat
    Can’t breakdown rRNA - basophilic stipling
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LEAD of lead poisoning

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Lead lines - gums + bones (blue-ish)
Encephalopathy (headaches, memory loss)
Ab pain // constipation
Drops - wrist and foot (b/c peripheral demyelin)

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12
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3 ways to treat lead poisoning

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Dimercaprol
EDTA
Succimer to chelate kids

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Causes siderblastic anemia

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  1. ALAS defect - X linked - 1st step PP synthesis
  2. Myelodysplastic syndromes
  3. Alc = mitochondrial poison, mito steps don’t work
  4. B6 def
  5. Isoniazid - why you give B6 with iso to prevent complication
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14
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Name the difference in the labs + presentation of B9 vs B12 def causing megaloblastic anemia

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B9: ↑homocysteine only (THF regen), no neuro
B12: ↑homocysteine + methylmalonic acid (FA breakdown)
Degen
1. Spinocerebellar = ataxia
2. Lat corticospinal
3. Dorsal column = X position + vibration sense
+ parasthesia (pins + needles)

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15
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Dx cause of B12 def as malab vs diet insuff with what test?

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Schilling
Diet: prolonged vegan
Malab: Crohn’s, diphyl latum, gastritis

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16
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Disease: megaloblastic anemia w/ orotic acid crystals in urine
Presents as kid w/ growth delay, weakness

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Orotic aciduria
HUGE clue is orotic acid in urine
UMP synthase problem -> can’t make UMP (pyrimidine)
Supplement: uridine + cytidine (U/T + C = pyrimidines)

17
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What are you thinking if the macrocytic anemia is isolated aka not megaloblastic with normally segmented neutrophils

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It’s not a problem with DNA synthesis
Liver disease
Alcoholism

18
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Name what gets absorbed at all 3 parts SI

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Duodenum - iron - iron def anemia
Jejunum - fat + folate - fat sol vitamin def + megaloblastic macrocytic anemia
Ileum - B12 - megalo macro

19
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How does ↑ferroportin cause anemia in chronic disease

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Binds ferroportin - can’t bring any in @ SI

Anemia starts normo -> micro (b/c ↓Fe)

20
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Anemia caused by pyruvate kinase def

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RBC only tissue affected b/c ONLY use glucose for E (no mito)
PEP -> pyruvate nets 1 ATP in glycolysis
↓ATP -> rigid RBCs = extravas hemolysis = normocytic anemia

21
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Which disease has target cells w/ Hgb crystals next to it

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HbC disease
Crystals look like RBC turned on side - all red
B globin mutation (therefore also chr 11)
Glutamic acid -> lyCine
Target cells -> extravas hemolysis

22
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If RBCs don’t have CD 55, what disease will they have?

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Acquired no GPI to anchor DAG/MIRL (CD 55/59)
Can’t resist complement
Coombs test is negative b/c no Abs
Night time - breathe less - ↑CO2 = resp acidosis = activates complement

23
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High risk complication for PNH

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AML

GPI mutation is in the stem cell - 1 mutation increases likelihood of another

24
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What is the sickle cell mutation and why does it make RBCs sickle

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B chain: valine instead of glutamic acid

Allows hydrophobic interaction so Hgb precipitates -> sickling

25
Q

Howell Jolly bodies + +/- target cells + renal papillary necrosis makes you think of what disease

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SICKLE CELL
HJ bodies: nuclear remnants (asplenia)
Target cells if progressed to asplenia (repeated infarcts)
Renal pap necrosis b/c ↓O2 to papilla
Blood in urine b/c kidney medulla infarcts

26
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Is the change to the spleen in hereditary spherocytosis hyperplasia or hypertrophy?

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Work HYPERTROPHY

Make more cells to deal with massive extravasc hemolysis

27
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Is sickle cell intravasc or extravasc hemolysis

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EXTRA - the body trying to remove sickled RBC
A sickle crisis intravasc isn’t about bleeding at all -> infarct
↓Haptoglobin tho b/c small amt intravasc hemolysis

28
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Whats coombs direct vs indirect

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DIRECT: RBCs already coated with Ig, bind the Ab vs Ig you add
INDIRECT: add RBC to serum to see if anti-RBC Ab is present

29
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Cold vs warm agglutanins - what are they, disease that cause them - what kind of anemia do these diseases have

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Abs vs RBC - will show + Coombs
Ab + RBC complex goes to spleen = extravasc hemolysis
Cold = IgM = mycoplasma, infectious mono (EBV = + monospot, CMV = - monospot)
Warm = IgG causing chronic anemia in SLE + CLL

30
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What is TTP

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Ab vs ADAMS T12
Can’t breakdown VWF
Causes microangiopathic hemolytic anemia (same idea as HUS)
Abnormal thrombus (drop platelets) -> shistocyte RBCs
Intravasc hemolysis + clotting at same time

31
Q
Disease:
Painful ab
Port wine urine
Polyneuropathy
Psych changes
Precipitated by drugs (P450 inducers)
A

Acute intermittent porphyria (PP syn => heme syn)
AD X PB deaminase
↑ALA
Treat: glucose + heme

32
Q

Tea colored urine + photosensitivity aka blistering skin rash

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Porphyria cutanea tarda
AD X URO decarbox - ↓heme
↑porphyrin (just didn’t get all way down to step to make protoP) -> deposits in skin = free rad damage = photosense

33
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What is the difference between Glanzmann thrombasthenia + immune TCP

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Glanz = X GP 2b3a = normal platelet count, quality problem
Immune TCP = Ab vs GP 2b3a - causes destruction of platelets = ↓ platelet count
Both ↑bleeding time

34
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Why does PTT rise in VWB disease

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VWF stabilizes F8 - without, ↓F8 = ↑PTT

35
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Inheritance 
Acute intermit porphyria
Porphyria cutaneous tarda
VWB disease
Hereditary spherocytosis
Pyruvate kinase def
G6PD def
Orotic aciduria
A
AD
1. AIP
2. P cutaneous tarda
3. VWB disease
4. Spherocytosis (mom + whit)
AR
1. Pyruvate kinase
2. Orotic aciduria
X recessive = G6PD
36
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Why do you bridge coumadin patients with heparin

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Prevent skin necrosis = result of hypercoag state after lose C + S first

37
Q

Name 5 substances secreted by endothelium to stop clotting normally

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PGI2 Xs platelet agg
NO 
Heparin like mol = ↑anti thrombin 3
tPA ↑s plasmin
Thrombomodulin ↑protein C
38
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RS cell markers

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2 eyes x CD 15 = 30

B cell origin