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What is the role of Haematology?

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The investigation of blood and bone marrow

The management of disorders of blood and bone marrow

Both involve interactions with other organs

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What components makes up blood?

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Plasma;
- Clotting or Coagulation Factors
- Albumin
- Antibodies

Buffy Coat;
- Platelets
- White Cells or Leucocytes

Red Blood Cells

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What are the functions of the blood?

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  • Transport
  • Maintenance of Vascular Integrity
  • Protection from Pathogens
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What is involved in Transport?

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Gases;
- Oxygen and carbon dioxide (In Red Cells)

  • Nutrients
  • Waste
  • Messages
    (These are in Plasma)
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What is involved in Maintenance of Vascular Integrity?

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Prevention of leaks - Platelets and clotting factors

Prevention of blockages - Anticoagulants and fibrinolytics

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What is involved in Protection from Pathogens?

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Phagocytosis and killing -Granulocytes/monocytes

Antigen recognition and antibody formation - Lymphocytes

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What is this?

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Oral sepsis in neutropenia

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What is this?

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Severe candidal infection in an immunocompromised patient

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What causes Haematological abnormalities?

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High levels;
- Increased rate of production
- (Decreased rate of loss)

Low levels;
- Decreased rate of production
- Increased rate of loss

Altered function

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Where do our Blood Cells come from?

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Bone marrow makes all blood cells from pluripotent stem cells

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What are the features of Stem Cells

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  • Totipotent
  • Self-renewal

Home to marrow niche
- CXCR4 (antagonist plerixafor)

  • Binary fission and flux through differentiation pathways amplify numbers

Flux regulated by hormones / growth factors
- Some used therapeutically (erythropoietin, G-CSF, thrombopoietin agonists)

  • Stem cell properties can now be ‘induced’
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Where is Bone Marrow Stored?

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Bones: most in children, axial in elderly

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What does Bone Marrow look like?

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Stroma and sinusoids (blood vessels)

Pink bone, white fat, spaces between haematopoietic cells

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Label this blood film

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Biconcave discs with central pallor (RBC’s)

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How do RBC’s develop?

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Erythroblast–>reticulocyte–>erythrocyte

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What is Erythropoietin?

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Erythropoietin - made in kidney in response to hypoxia

Hence why ones with kidney impairment are anaemic

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Why is a Reticulocyte count used and what does a high or low count show?

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Reticulocyte count - a measure of red cell production

High - Bleeding?

Low - Bone marrow issues?

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What is Polycythaemia and when is it seen?

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Too many RBC’s - In Myeloid Malignancies

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What are the Causes of Anaemia?

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Poor gas transfer:
- Dyspnoea
- Fatigue

Decreased production (Deficiency in ‘haematinics’);
- Iron
- Folate
- Vitamin B12

Congenital:
- Thalassaemias

Increased loss
- Bleeding
- Haemolysis

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What are the features of Red blood cells?

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Microcytes, macrocytes
Polychromasia
Burr cells in renal failure etc
Can make ~10g/L/day

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What are the features of Platelets?

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Function=haemostasis (and immune) (Part of primary haemostatic response)

Production regulated by thrombopoietin
- Produced in liver
- Regulation by platelet mass feedback

Lifespan =7 days

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What Pathologies can be caused by Platelets?

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Thrombocytosis (Too many platelets);
- In Myeloid Malignancies
- ‘Reactive’

Thrombocytopenia (Not enough platelets);
- Marrow failure
- Immune destruction: ITP

Altered function;
- Aspirin
- Clopidogrel
- Abciximab

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What is this?

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Non blanching Petechiae rash from Thrombocytopenia

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What is this from?

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Significant blood blisters - single platelets count

Very Very Low Platelets (Thrombocytopenia)

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What is Polychromasia?
Polychromasia is a disorder where there is an abnormally high number of immature red blood cells found in the bloodstream as a result of being prematurely released from the bone marrow during blood formation (poly- refers to many, and -chromasia means color.) These cells are often shades of grayish-blue.
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What is this and the causes?
Microcytic, hypochromic red cells in Iron Deficiency
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What does a Low MCV suggest?
Low MCV microcytic; - Small and pale - Iron deficiency most common cause
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What does a High MCV suggest?
Macrocytic; - B12 or folate deficiency (neutrophils can see)
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What is this?
Macrocytic Red Cells in Folate Deficiency
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What is this?
Sickle cells & target cells in sickle cell disease
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What is this?
Schistocytes (fragmented cells) in haemolytic uraemic syndrome
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What is this and what does it do?
Megakaryocytes make Platelets
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What is this and its significance?
Platelets, beginning to clump is INSIGNIFICANT, it just makes platelet counts harder.
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What are the features of Neutrophils?
Function: to ingest and destroy pathogens, especially bacteria and fungi Interleukins (‘between white cells’) and CSFs (colony stimulating factors) - granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) Regulation by immune responses - Macrophages, IL-17 Lifespan =1-2 days Speed of response = few hours
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Was is the different between these 5 Neutrophils?
1). Blast (Acute Myeloid Leukemia) 2). Promyelocyte 3). Myelocyte 4). Metamyelocyte 5). Neutrophil
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What is Neutrophillia?
Too many Neutrophils Production regulated by granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) Infection - Left shift, toxic granulation Inflammation - eg MI, postoperative, rheumatoid arthritis G-CSF used therapeutically - Neutropenia - Mobilisation of stem cells *To improve platelet count or before harvest stem cells to give them back to them to make more? * Usually get from reactive, infection, inflammatory, post op, Post MI, etc
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What is Neutropenia and its features?
Not enough neutrophils Decreased production - Drugs - Marrow failure Increased consumption - Sepsis - Autoimmune Altered function - eg chronic granulomatous disease
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What is this cell and its function?
The ‘reticuloendothelial system’ Function: to ingest and destroy pathogens, especially bacteria and fungi Subset of monocytes migrate into tissues and become macrophages or dendritic cells - Some populations of macrophages self-maintaining
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What is this cell and its function?
Eosinophil (Another Myeloid Cell) - Parasites - Allergies
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What is this cell?
Basophil (Another Myeloid Cell)
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What is this cell and its function?
Lymphocytes Adaptive, versus innate, immune system - Immunological memory Surface antigens: CD markers Lymphocytosis (Often reactive, Any infection can cause); - Infectious mononucleosis - Pertussis - Lymphoproliferative disorders Lymphopenia - Usually post-viral - Lymphoma - rare (Also drugs suppressing?)
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Label these cells
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Where do Leucocytes live?
In the Peripheral blood
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What are the Subtypes of Lymphocytes?
Subtypes; - B cells – make antibodies - T cells – Helper, cytotoxic, regulatory - NK cells Produced in bone marrow - B cells mature in bone marrow, T cells in thymus Circulate in blood, lymph and lymph nodes Differentiate into effector cells in secondary lymphoid organs (lymph nodes or mucosal associated lymphoid tissue)
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What is unique about the T and B cell receptors?
Each naïve T and B cell has unique surface receptor *Red bit is specific and can change, specific for specific type of antigen
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What are antibodies?
Adaptors between pathogens and clearance systems: opsonisation - ‘Kiss of death’
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How do Antibodies create different receptors?
Can recombine different bits of DNA with the constant bit to change and be specific for different types of antigens Called Creation of a Receptor Chain Gene by Recombination
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What is Repertoire Diveristy and when can it go wrong?
Repertoire diversity is inversely related to clonality, which refers to the number and frequency of observed TCRs within a sample, and together with diversity is often used as a meter of immune response efficacy (please see Glossary section for definitions and quantification of repertoire diversity measures). Combinatorial diversity – within each chain - V-region combined with J- or D- then C-region Junctional diversity - At join, additional nucleotides added Combinatorial diversity – between chains - Each alpha chain pairs with a beta chain - Each light chain pairs with a heavy chain Mistakes cause lymphoid malignancies - eg IgH heavy locus on chromosome 14 - t(14,18), t(8,14), t(11,14)……….
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How do B Cells mature and at what stages can defects occur?
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How does Positive and negative selection within a Leukocyte occur?
In the bone marrow if gene rearrangement results in a functional receptor the cell is selected to survive – positive selection If the receptor recognises ‘self’ antigens - the cell is triggered to die – negative selection: tolerance B cells that survive this selection are exported to the periphery
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What is Human leucocyte Antigen: HLA?
Class I: displays internal antigens on all nucleated cells Class II: displays antigens eaten by professional antigen presenting cells Constant within, variation between individuals Immune cells read HLA-Barcode on cells to help identify self vs non self cells or uninfected vs infected cells - An immune response is triggered if a infected cell is identified
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Name some conditions that affect the Blood?
Many systemic diseases affect the blood for example: rheumatoid arthritis causes; - Anaemia of chronic disease - Iron deficiency - Folate deficiency - Immune haemolysis - Neutrophilia - Immune thrombocytopenia - Cytopenias secondary to medication - Felty syndrome (This disorder is generally defined by the presence of three conditions: rheumatoid arthritis (RA), an enlarged spleen (spenomelgaly) and a low white blood cell count (neutropenia).
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How can diseases in Different Systems affect the Blood?
Hepatic - Anaemia, deficient clotting factors Renal - Anaemia, haemolytic uraemic syndrome Cardiovascular - Anaemia Respiratory - Polycythaemia Gastrointestinal disease - Anaemia
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What conditions can too much plasma cause?
Paraproteins in the Blood
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What conditions can too little plasma cause?
Problems with Clotting factors: haemophilia
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What can Abnormal function in the Plasma cause?
Clotting factors: von Willebrand disease
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What Diagnostic tools should you use for blood investigations in order of 1st line onwards?
1st Line; - Full Blood Count 2nd Line; - Clotting times for clotting factors and platelets (Platelet and leukocyte function tests?) 3rd Line; Chemical Assays; - Iron (Ferritin) - B12 - Folate 4th Line; - Marrow aspirate and trephine biopsy (bone marrow) - Lymph node Biopsy (Lymphoma?) - Other organ biopsy 5th Line; - Imaging
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What is Ferritin?
The protein that carries Iron
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What things does a Full Blood count check?
- Haemoglobin - RBC - Platelets WBC - Neutrophils - Lymphocytes - Monocytes - Eosinophils - Basophils No ‘primitive’ cells
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What Haematology Treatments are Available?
Replacement - Blood - Haematinics - Coagulation factors - Plasma exchange Transplantation Drugs - Cytotoxics - Monoclonal antibodies - Inhibitors of cellular proliferation - Immunosuppressants - Inhibitors of coagulation - Inhibitors of fibrinolysis

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