Blood Film Flashcards
(13 cards)
1
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Howell-Jolly bodies
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Spleen Failure: Splenectomy, hyposplenism, and some types of anemia
2
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Blood film: IDA
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- Target cells
- ‘Pencil’ poikilocytes
3
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Target Cells:
- Sickle-cell/thalassaemia
- IDA
- Hyposplenism
- Liver disease
4
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Tear-drop poikiocytes:
- Myelofibrosis
5
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Spherocytes:
- Herediatry spherocytosis
- AI haemolytic anaemia
6
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Basophilic stippling:
- Lead poisoning
- Thalassaemia
- Sideroblastic anaemia
- Myelodysplasia
7
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Howell-Jolly bodies:
- Hyposlplenism
8
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Heinz Bodies:
- G6PD deficiency
- Alpha-thalassaemia
9
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Pencil Cells: IDA
10
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Serum iron
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- Measures circularing iron in blood.
- HIGH: haemochromatosis, haemolysis
- LOW: IDA, chronic anaemia
11
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Total Iron bindings capacity (TIBC)
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- Measures blood capacity to bind to iron
- HIGH: IDA
- LOW: Chronic disease
12
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Transferrin
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% of transferrin bound to iron (serum iron/TIBC x 100)
- LOW: IDA
- HIGH: Haemachromatosis
13
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Ferritin
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Stores of iron in cells
- LOW: IDA (confirms diagnosis)
- HIGH: inflammation
