What diagnosis am I?
Clinical Manifestations
Laboratory Findings
Testing
Interventions
100
Disease with a sustained increase in blood hemoglobin levels to 18g/dL, and RBC count of 6 million/mm3, or a hematocrit of 55%or greater.
What is Polycythemia Vera?
100
In polycythemia vera the thick blood moves through the tissues and in some highly vascular area, blood flow becomes so slow that stasis occurs causing a clot to form.
What is thrombosis?
100
May be low, normal, or elevated in leukemic patients. The client that has a a high count has a poorer prognosis.
What is a white blood cell count?
100
Aspiration of cells and fluid from the bone marrow with a large bore needle, usually at the iliac crest.
What is bone marrow biospsy?
100
Bood drawing to remove the client's number of RBC's and reduce viscosity in the client with polycythemia vera.
What is Phlebotomy?
200
This type of cancer occurs when there is an uncontrolled production of immature WBC (usually blast cells) in the bone marrow.
What is Leukemia?
200
A deficiency of all three cell types (RBC's, WBC'S and platelets).
What is Pancytopenia?
200
This absolute count is less than 1500 cells per mm3 of blood.
What is neutropenia?
200
This test is made by taking a drop of blood and spreading it over a slide. It is a rapid test that can provide important infomation on the sizes, shapes, and approximate proportions of differnt blood cell types within the peripheral blood.
What is a peripheral blood smear?
200
Hemiphilia A uses this type of treatment to restore blood loss.
What is blood transfusion and/or factor VIII?
300
A white blood cell cancer that involves an overgrowth of B-lymphocyte plasma cells in the bone marrow. These cells normally make antibodies.
What is Multiple Myeloma?
300
Red raised spots on any surface of the skin, especially the legs and the feet that can occur with thrombocytopenia.
What is Petechiae?
300
Found in the leukemic cells of a client with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML).
What is Philadelphia chromosome?
300
Examination of the chromosomes and genes within the chromosomes of the bone marrow cells.
What is cytogenetic testing?
300
This procedure reduces iron overload and organ damage in clients receiving multiple bood transfusion (>20 units) for myelodysplastic syndromes.
What is chelation therapy?
400
This is a hereditary bleeding disorder that has a deficiency of facotr VIII.
What is Hemophilia A
400
A large but painless area on the body that is the most common assessment finding in a client with Hodgkin's lymphoma.
What is a lymph node?
400
A specific cancer cell type that is found in the lympth node that is a marker of Hodgkin's Lymphoma.
What is Reed-Sternberg cell?
400
A radiological technique that produces images of cross sections through a patient's body using low levels of radiation
What is compterized tomography (CT)?
400
A type of transplant in which patients receive their own stem cells that are collected before client receive high dose chemotherapy.
What is autologous transplant?
500
A syndrome that arises as a complication of a serious or life threatening condition that is characterized by both bleeding and thrombosis, that results from depletion of clotting factors, platelets, and red blood cells.
What is Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC)?
500
Abnormal blood sounds over the arteries. May see with leukemic patients.
What is bruit?
500
During DIC in response to excess clotting activity, the fibrinolytic process accelerates resulting in an increase in by products.
What is fibrin degradation products?
500
A nuclear medicine imaging technique which produces a three-dimensional image or picture of functional processes in the body.
What is positron emission tomography (PET scan)?
500
A side effect that can occur after stem cell transplant to the urinary sytem.
What is red urine?
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