Exam 3 [Diseases Of Blood & Lymph] Flashcards
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Clinical Features of Anemias
1) Pallor of Skin & Mucous Membranes
2) Weakness, Fatigue, Lethargy, Dizziness
3) Hyper Dynamic Circulation
4) Anginal Pain or Cardiac Failure
3 Types of Anemias
1) Increased Blood Loss
2) Increased rate of Destruction (Hemolytic)
3) Decreased rate of Production
Acute Anemia Due to Blood loss Features
- Hypovolemia
- Hemodilution
- Reticulocytosis
- Nomocytic
- Normochromic
Chronic Anemia Due to Blood Loss Features
- Iron deficiency
- Hypochromic
- Microcytic
What is Anemia due to Increasd Rate of Destruction (Hemolytic)
- Reduced life span of RBC’s (<120 days)
- Accelerated red cell destruction
Evidence of Hemolysis in Anemia due to Increasd Rate of Destruction (Hemolytic)
1) Increased Unconjugated Bilirubin -> jaundice
2) Damaged Red cells
3) Erythroid Hyperplasia of Bone Marrow
4) Increased Immature red cells in blood
Causes of Anemia due to Increasd Rate of Destruction (Hemolytic)
Intrinsic: red cell deficits
Extrinsic: abnormal hemolytic mechanisms
Hemolytic Anemias due to Intrinsic Causes
1) Sickle cell
2) Thalassemia
3) Hereditary Spherocytosis
4) Glucose 6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency
What is Hereditary Spherocytosis
Dominant inheritance of spherical red cells due to alterations in permeability of cell membrane
Childhood Clinical Features of Hereditary Spherocytosis
- Hemolysis
- Decreased red cell life span
Adulthood Clinical Features of Hereditary Spherocytosis
- Hemolysis
- Anemia
- Jaundice & Pigment Gall Stones
- Erythoid Hyerplasia of Bone Marrow
Clinical remission in Hereditary Spherocytosis
Splenectomy produces remission in most cases
What is a “Sickle Cell”
- Contains HbS instead of HbA
- AA substitution causes decreased solubility of hemoglobin
Reduced state HbS =
Long, slender crystalline masses causing distortion of red cell born in Vito and in vitro
Pathogenesis of Sickle Cell Disease
- hemolytic anemia
- capillary obstruction due to thrombosis
Series of events in Sickle Cell Disease
Increased Hypoxia -> Sickling -> RBC Destruction -> Hypoxia -> fatty degeneration of lower kidney & spleen -> enlargement from trapped damaged RBC’s -> forms atrophic fibrous mass (autoplenectomy)
Sickle Cell Disease Findings
1) Normochromic, Normocytic
2) Anisocytosis & Poikilocytosis
3) Increased Reticulocytes & Polymorphs
4) Erythroid Hyperplasia in Marrow
5) + Sickling test
6) Hemoglobin Electrophoretic pattern
Clinical Features of Sickle Cell Disease
- Onset in 2nd year of life
- Susceptible to Pneumococcal Pnuemonia, Salmonella, Osteomyelitis, bacterial meningitis
- Erythroid Hyperplasia
Symptoms of Sickle Cell Disease
- Fever
- Bone, Joint & Abdominal Symptoms
Homozygous vs. Heterozygous Sickle Cell Disease
Homo: 80-100% of Hb is HbS, decreased PO2 Sickling in vivo
Hetero: 10% of black Americans carry HbS gene
.2% have Sickle Cell
Sickle Cell Trait
Heterozygous Hgb
- Increased resistance to malaria parasite
- asymptomatic until exposed to low PO2
- HbS = 25-40% of hemoglobin
What is Thalassemias
- Mediterranean = Sea of Blood
- alpha or beta chain issue
Cells of alpha Thalassemias
- Alpha chain deficiency
- beta & gamma form polymers
- inclusion bodies
- red cells = thinner w/ short life span
Pathogenesis of Beta Thalassemia
- Excessive Hemolysis
- Homozygous: (Cooley’s Anemia)