Hematology part 2 DIT - part 1 in endo Flashcards
protein responsible for the flexibility of RBCs
Spectrin
Anisocytosis
RBCs of varying size
Poikilocytosis
RBCs of varying shape
erythrocytosis
same thing as polycythemia
Life span of a RBC
120 days
Incompatible blood transfusion is due to what type of process
symptoms?
Type II HTN
hemolysis
renal failure
shock
death
erythroblastosis fettles is due to
prevented by? timeline of treatment (3)
mothers(Rho-) IgG antibodies crossing the placental and attacking the fetus’s Rho + RBCs
->anemia, jaundice-> kernicterus, hydrops fetalis, intrauterine death
Give RhoGram (IgGs that mask presence of Rho + RBCs) Give at: -28 wks - any traumatic event - w/in 3 days of delivery
acanthocytes are?
Seen when? (2)
irregularly spiked RBCs (vs regularly spiked RBCs in echinocytes)
liver disease
abetalipoproetinemia
Liver disease see what 2 changes to the RBCs
acanthocytes
target cells
Basophilic stippling of the RBCs indicates what (3)
Lead poisoning*
Thalassemia
anemia of chronic disease
Bite cells are seen in
G6PD deficiency - Macrophages removing oxydized hemoglobin (heinz bodies)
Elliptocytes are?
seen in
pencil shaped cells
hereditary elliptocytosis
schistocytes are?
seen in (3)
cut up RBCs
Due to DIC, TTP/HUS, trauma (metal heart valve)
sideroblasts are?
differ from ringed siderblasts how?
nucleated RBC precursor w/ granules of iron surrounding the mitochondria in the bone marrow - NORMAL
ringed sideroblasts is due to a disorder in heme synthesis -> excess iron granules that circle the nucleus (can lead to anemia
Causes of ringed sideroblasts (4)
lead poisoning
drugs
genetic conditions
myelodysplastic syndromes
Sherocytes commonly seen in
hereditary spherocytosis
teardrop cells seen in
bone marrow infiltration; like myelofibrosis (squeezed out)
Target cells are seen in ((4)
THAL
Thalessemia
Hemaglobin C disease
Asplenia (sickle cell or post surgery)
Liver disease
Heinz bodies are?
oxidation of heme in the RBCs in G6PD deficiency -> benatured hemoglobin precipitates
Can be “bite out”
Howell jolly bodies are seen?
nucleated RBCs that are normally removed by the spleen
Seen in apslenic patients
Asplenic patients you may see(2)
howell jolly bodies
Target cells
HbA composition
normal adult hemoglobin - 97%
2 alpha
2beta
HbA2 composition
2 % of normal Hgb
2 alpha
2 delta
HbF composition
2 alpha
2 gamma chains
higher affinity for oxygen, less affinity for 2,3 DPG (allows placental transfer)