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Anemia ch7
Anemia
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Disorder characterized by RBC and hemoglobin and hematocrit levels below normal range | Anemia |
| Abnormally low circulating blood volume due to blood loss. 500 ml loss can be tolerated 1000ml lass can be cause severe complicatiolns. severity and symptoms depend on how rapid the blood loss. | Hypovolemic Anemia |
| Absence of the intrinsic factor. | Pernicious Anemia |
| Decrease of bone marrow function, RBC production. Primary congenital. Secondary, viral, medications, chemicals, radiation, and chemotherapy | Aplastic Anemia |
| Iron Deficiency Anemia | RBC'S contain decreased levels of hemoglobin. Excessive iron loss caused by chronic bleeding, intestinal uterine, gastri |
| Most common genetic disorder in US. Occurs predominantly in African Americans | Sickle Cell Anemia |
| Severe reduction in number of granulocytes (wbc's) (basophils, eosinophils, and neutrophils) WBC less than 200/mm3, medications, chemotherapy, radiation, neoplastic disease, viral or bacterial infections. | Agranulocytosis |
| Malignant disorder of the hematopoietic system, excess leukocytes accumulate in the bone marrow and lymph nodes, possible genetic, viral, radiation, chemotherapy. acute or chronic, proliferating cells | Leukemia |
| Abnormal hematological condition in which the number of platelets is reduced below 100,000 mm3 | Thrombocytopenia |
| Heriditary coagulation disorder, characerized by a disturbance of clotting factor. | Hemophilia |
| Inherited bleeding disorder characterized by abnormally slow coagulation of blood and spontaneous epsodes of GI bleeding, epistaxis, and gingival bleeding. Mild deficiency of factor viii. Common during postpartum, menorrhagia, post operative, post trauma, | Von Willebrand's Disease |
| Overstimulation of clotting and anticlotting processes in response to disease or injury. Obstetrical complication, malignancies, tissue trauma, transfusion reaction, burns, shock, snack bites. Tug of war between clotting and anti clotting in body. | Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC) |
| Malignant neoplastic immunodeficiency disease of bone marrow. Tumor composed of plasma cells, destroys osseous tissue. bone marrow becomes overcrowded and unable to produce erythrocytes, platelets, and leukocytes. | Mulitple Myeloma |
| Inflammation of one or more lymphatic vessels, Usually occurs from acute strep or staph infection in an extremity. | Lymphangitis |
| Primary or Secondary disorder, Accumulation of lymph in the soft tissue, obstruction, increase in amt of lymph, removal of lymph channels and nodes | Lymphedema |
| Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Neoplastic disorder of lympoid tissue. Tumors useally start in lymph nodes and spread to lymphoid tissue in the spleen, liver, GI tract, and bone marrow. | Malignant Lymphoma |
| Inflammation or infectious process that develops into a neoplasm, affects males twice as frequently as females, Reed-Sternberg cells - large, abnormal, multinucleated cells in the lymphatic system replace the normal cells. | Hodgkin's Disease |
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