Midterms Flashcards

(52 cards)

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Anemia characterized by increased destruction of RBCs and decreased erythropoiesis

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Hemolytic anemia

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Causes of intrinsic hemolytic anemia

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Hemoglobinopathies
Membranopathies
Enzymopathies

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Examples of hemoglobinopathies associated with intrinsic HA

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Sickle cell anemia

Thalassemia

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4
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Condition in bone marrow due to high production of RBCs

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Erythroid hyperplasia

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Proteins involved in hereditary spherocytosis

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Band 3
Ankyrin
Spectrin

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Proteins involved in hereditary elliptocytosis

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Protein 4.1

Spectrin

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7
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Protein for anion transport

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Band 3

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8
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Connects band 3 and ankyrin

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Protein 4.1

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9
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Protein of primary cytoskeleton

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Spectrin

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Proteins for flexibility of cell membrane

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Actin
Tropomyosin
Protein 4.1

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Cause of intravascular HA

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Synthetic heart valve

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12
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Enzymopathies in HA result to

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Splenomegaly
Heinz bodies
Bite cells

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13
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G6PD is part of what pathway

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HMP (hexose monophosphate pathway)

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Products of G6P + NADP rxn

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NADPH + phosphogluconate

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Utilizes NADPH for removal of stress oxidant (ROS)

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Glutathione reductase

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Normal relationship of NADPH and ROS

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High NADPH, low ROS

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17
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Abnormal relationship of NADPH and ROS

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Low NADPH, high ROS

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18
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Heinz bodies are stained by

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Supravital stain

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19
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High ROS = ? Hb denaturation

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Increased

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20
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Enzyme for ATP production

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Pyruvate kinase

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Poikilocyte resulting from the sequestration of spleen

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Substance that inhibits pyrimidine-5-nucleotidase

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RBC inclusion related to pyrimidine-5-nucleotidase

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Basophilic stippling

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Condition of extrinsic hemolytic anemia involved in prehepatic jaundice

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Transcribe IMHA
Immune mediated hemolytic anemia
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Test ideal for autoimmune HA
Coomb's test or direct agglutination test
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Small clots cause bursting of RBCs within a vessel (name the condition)
Microangiopathic hemolytic anemia (MAHA)
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Causes of MAHA
DIC, TTP
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Poikilocyte found in MAHA
Schistocyte
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Individuals with this condition is rsistant to malaria
Duffy null (no Duffy Ag)
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Duffy Ag is the receptor to what species
P. knowlesi, P. vivax
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Fetal Rh incompatibility causes what disease
HDN
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Treatment to sensitize the mother's RBCs
RhoGAM
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Hereditary spherocytosis is most common in what race
Northern Europeans
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Spherocytes have _ surface/volume ratio
Low
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T/F: Spherocytes cannot stretch
T (true)
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Most impt. test/parameter for spherocytosis
EOFT
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RBCs in hypertonic solution
Shrink/crenate
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RBCs in hypotonic solution
Swell/burst
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Coomb's test result for spherocytosis
Negative
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MCV for spherocytosis
Normal or decreased
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The only condition with hyperchromia (high MCHC)
Hereditary spherocytosis
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Brain tissues bacome yellowish
Kernicterous
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Concentration of bilirubin to cause kernicterous condition
20mg/dL
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Findings in UTZ(ultrasound) test in spherocytosis
Cholelithiasis (gall stones)
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Gallstones are formed from ____ + _____
Ca + B1
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Test useful to detect Band 3
Eosin-5-maleimide
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Differrential test for hereditary spherocytosis and elliptocytosis
Eosin-5-maleimide
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Condition in which the sinusoids of the spleen may be blocked
Hereditary elliptocytosis
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Heat sensitive variant of hereditary elliptocytosis
Hereditary pyropoikilocytosis
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MCHC in her. elliptocytosis
Normal
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Hereditary ovalocytosis is also known as
Southeast Asian Ovalocytosis