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59 Cards in this Set
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Which inclusion cannot be visualized by the Wright stain peripheral smear |
Heinz bodies |
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Which function most affect spherocytes as they travel through the circulation |
They are less deformable and more sensitive to the low glucose in the spleen |
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Many individuals with hereditary spherocytosis are prone to jaundice because of |
Gallstone disease |
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What are characteristics of hereditary pyropoikilocytosis |
Elliptocytes, spherocytes, and budding red blood cells |
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What red blood cell morphology is formed as a result of Heinz bodies being pitted from the red blood cell |
Bite cells |
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What hemolytic disorder has red blood cells that are especially sensitive to lysis by complement |
Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria |
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In the osmotic fragility test, normal red blood cells hemolyze at which level |
0.45% |
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One of the least severe clinical manifestations of G6PD deficiency is |
Congenital nonspherocytic hemolytic anemia |
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An anemia that manifeast as a decreased marrow cellularity, cytopenias in in two cellular elements, and a reticulocytopenia is appropriately termed |
Aplastic anemia |
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Individuals with Fanconi's anemia characteristically show |
Increased Hgb F |
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What is the amino acid substitution in patients with sickle cell anemia |
Valine for glutamic acid |
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What are the factors contributes to the pathophysology of sickling |
Dehydration |
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Most clinically significant hemoglobin variants |
Most are single amino acid substitutions |
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What hemoglobins rank second in variant hemoglobins world wide |
Hbg E |
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What shows crystals appearing like bars of gold in the peripheral smear |
Hgb CC |
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What conditions is the leading cause of hospitalization for sickle cell patients |
acute chest syndrome |
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Which hemoglobin separation methods is used for most newborn hemoglobin screening |
Isoelectric focusing |
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Autosplenectomy is characteristic of |
Sickle cell anemia |
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The Benin haplotype of sickle cell disease is prevalent in which country or countries |
West Africa |
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When the bone marrow temporarily ceases to produce cells in a sickle cell patient an _______ crisis has occurred |
Aplastic |
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What organ plays a vital role in red blood cell health and longevity |
Spleen |
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An autosomal dominant disorder of several membrane proteins is |
HS |
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What is a key protein in HS |
spectrin |
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Spherocytes are _________ deformable and are _______ osmotically fragile |
less more |
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Patients with hereditary spherocytes have |
spenomegaly jaundice increase tendency for gallstones disease |
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The ________ _________ test is a labor intensive by valuable test to assess red blood cell response in different hypotonic salt solutions |
osmotic fragility |
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HE is a membrane disorder of spectrin showing _________ thermal stability |
Decreased |
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What are some clinical variants of HE |
common HE Southeast Asia ovalocytosis spherocytic HE |
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A recessive membrane disorder with a vizarre red blood cell morphology that shows hemoglobin budding |
Hereditary pyropoikilocytosis
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A membrane disorder in which red blood cells have an intrinsic defect to sodium and potassium permeability |
Hereditary stomatocytosis |
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______ is an X-linked recessive disorder with more than 400 variants |
G6PD |
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Drug induced or infection induced hemolysis in G6PD is |
intravascular brisk self limiting |
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Hypoproliferative disorder in which there is cellular depletion and a reduced production of blood cells |
Aplastic anemia |
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are rear hyproliferative disorders with congenital malformations |
Fanconi's anemia & Diamond Blackfan anemia |
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a hemolytic anemia that is caused when nine red blood cells become increasingly sensitive to complement lysis |
PNH |
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What is a disease affecting elderly individuals that is caused by an IgM auto-antibody of wide thermal range |
CAS |
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is an extremely rare hemolytic disorder caused by anti P of a wide thermal wide |
Paroxysmal cold hemoglobinuria |
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Most hemoglobinopathies are the result of single |
single amino acid substitution in the beta chain |
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In sickle cell disorders valine is substituted for ___________ in the ________ position of the beta chain |
glutamic acid sixth |
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In Hgb C disorders __________ is substituted for glutamic acid in the ________ position of the beta chain |
lysine sixth |
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The presence of _________ affords some protection against malarial infection of red blood cells |
Hgb S |
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Cells containing _________ as the majority hemoglobin are insoluble in areas of the body with low oxygen tension |
Hgb S |
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Sickle cells clog small vessels during sickling crisis, causing |
extensive organ damage and pain |
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_________ ________ of Hgb S produces sickle cell animia |
Homozygous inheritance Hgb SS
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_______ ________ produces sickle cell trait |
Heterozygous inheritance Hgb AS |
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Predispose a patient to sickle cell |
Hypoxia acidosis dehydration cold fever |
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The is an ________ % prevalence of the sickle cell gene among Africa Americans |
8-10 |
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______________ is a consequence of repeated infarction to the spleen in young children with sickle cell disease |
Auto splenectomy
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__________ & _________ a serious complications in sickle cell patients |
Stroke acute chest syndrome |
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During sickle cell episodes patients show |
nucleated red blood cells sickle cells target cells polychromasia |
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Individuals with sickle cell trait are _________ with rare abnormalities in the peripheral smear |
asymptomatic |
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_______ _______ is the usual screening procedure to determine if Hgb S is present |
Dithionite solubility |
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_______ & ________ provide better methods to isolate hemoglobin bands |
Acid or Alkaline electrophoresis IEF |
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is the result of inheriting 2 abnormal hemoglobins Hgb S and Hgb C |
Hgb SC |
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Hgb C disease may produce Hgb crystals on |
Wright stain |
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may produce abnormal crystals formation resembling the Washington Monument or fingers in a glove |
Hgb SC |
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may produce condition as severe as sickle cell disease |
Hgb S beta thalassemia |
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is the second most prevalent hemoglobin variant and is seen with great frequency in southeast Asia |
Hgb E |
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_______ & ________ migrate with Hgb S on alkaline electrophoresis |
Hgb D & Hgb G |