A protein that is mainly produced by the liver. Its main function is to transport iron.
Tranferrin
Failure to thrive
Change in facial structures
Enlarged Spleen
Beta Thalassemia Major
30% to 100% elliptical cells
fragmented cells
Common hereditary elliptocytosis
Mild
Lysine substituted for the glutamine
hemoglobin C disease
Hemoglobin A approximately 60%
Hemoglobin S approximately 40%
Sickle Cell Trait
A protein that stores iron in your body.
Ferritin
Fever, nausea, and abdominal pain follow after ingesting broad beans
Favism
Crystals in PS (bars of gold)
Hemoglobin C Disease
Normal levels of _____________ switched to a deficit is associated with Heriditary Spherocytosis
Spectrin
Band 3 molecular defect
Red cells are spoon shaped
Southeast Asian Ovalocytosis
Measurement of the blood's capacity to bind iron with transferrin.
Total Iron-Binding Capacity (TIBC)
Chronic fatigue and weakness
Impotence
Cardiac arrhythmias
Hair loss
Hereditary Hemochromatosis (HH)
↓ Red count
↓ Hemoglobin
↓ Hematocrit
↓ MCV (microcytic)
↓ MCHC (hypochromic)
↑ RDW
IDA
Valine Substituted for the glutamine
Sickle Cell anemia
Rare recessive disorder in African Americans
Cells crenate and hemolyze at 46 degrees Celsius
Hereditary Pyropoikilocytosis
The percentage of transferrin that is bound to iron.
Transferrin saturation
Hypersegmented neutrophils
Macro-ovalocytes
Teardrop cells
Megaloblastic anemia
Folic acid deficiency
Dimorphism
Pappenheimer bodies
Sideroblastic Anemia
N A D P → N A D P H
Oxidized glutathione is then converted to reduced glutathione
Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency (G 6 P D)
Rare autosomal recessive disorder
Thrombocytopenia and leukopenia
↑ Hemoglobin F
Short life span; mean survival = 16 years
Fanconi’s Anemia (F A)
How do you calculate tranferrin Saturation
(serum iron/TIBC) X 100
Complete absence of alpha chains
No hemoglobin A or F
Bart's Hydrops fetalils
Asynchrony of the N:C Ratio
Basophilic Cytoplasm
RBC Precursors larger than Normal
Megaloblastic Anemia
Thymidine triphosphate (TTP) switched with deoxyuridine triphosphate leads to
cell division and nuclear maturation are impaired
Megaloblastic Anemia
Two bands present on electrophoresis: one at hemoglobin S (50%) and one at hemoglobin A2
Hemoglobin S-Beta Thalassemia