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13 Cards in this Set
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Acanthocytes (spur cells)
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liver disease --> abetalipoproteinemia (states of cholesterol dysregulation)
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basophilic stippling
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thalassemia
anemia of chronic disease lead poisoning |
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elliptocyte
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hereditary elliptocytosis
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Bite cells
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G6PD deficiency
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macro-ovalocytes (big and purple)
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megaloblastic anemia (also hypersegmented neutrophils)
marrow failure |
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ringed sideroblasts
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sideroblastic anemia
Excess iron in mitochondria = pathologic |
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schistocyte/helmet cell
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DIC
TTP/HUS traumatic hemolysis |
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sickle cell
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Sickle cell anemia
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spherocyte
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hereditary spherocytosis
autoimmune hemolysis |
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teardrop cells
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bone marrow infiltration (e.g. myelofibrosis)
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target cell
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HbC disease
asplenia liver disease thalassemia |
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Heinz bodies
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alpha-thalassemia
G6PD deficiency oxidation of hemoglobin sulfhydryl groups leads to denaturated hemoglobin precipitation and damage to RBC membrane and formation of bite cells |
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Howell-Jolly bodies
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hyposplenia/asplenia (howell-jolly bodies normallyu removed from RBCs by splenic macrophages
basophilic nuclear remnants found in RBC |