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Turnicky 04 Acc. RC
Turinicky: Accelerated Red Cell Turnover
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| >4% reticulocytes on peripheral blood smear | Accelerated Red Cell Turnover |
| Microspherocytes | Characteristic of Hemolytic anemia |
| Antibody formation to foreign antigens | Alloimmune Reaction |
| 2 Alloimmune situations | Hemolytic transfusion reaction Hemolytic disease of the new born |
| 3 autoimmune hemolytic anemia situations | Warm Cold Paroxysmal cold hemoglobinemia |
| Heinz bodies | G6PD |
| G6PD is asymptomatic until... | Illness or exposure to certain drugs |
| Most common enzyme disorder | G6PD deficiency |
| Second most common enzyme deficiency | Pyruvate kinase deficiency |
| Most common enzyme deficiency in the Embden-Meyerhor pathway | Pyruvate kinase deficiency |
| Hyperchromic anemia | Hereditary Spherocytosis |
| Schistocyte | Microangiopathic anemia |
| Childhood tetrad of Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome | Hemolytic anemia w/schistocytes Acute renal failure Thrombocytopenia CNS symptoms (seizures) |
| Pentad of clinical findings for TTP | *Fever *Renal dysfunction Microangiopathic HA Thrombocytopenia CNS Symptoms |
| Disorder of vWF | TTP |
| vWF cleaving protease or... | ADAMTS-13 |
| Free Hgb circulating in the plasma | Hemoglobinemia |
| Free Hgb filtered by the kidney | Hemoglobinurea |