Red Blood Cells
This hormone stimulates the production of RBCs.
Erythropoietin
These are the 2 types of thalassemia
What are alpha and beta?
This is the latest treatment for thalassemia and other blood disorders such as sickle cell anemia.
What is gene therapy?
This blood type contains neither A or B antigens and is recessive
What is Type O blood?
This destruction of RBCs occurs when any transfusion is incompatible.
What is agglutination?
Hemoglobin breaks down into these components
What are carbon monoxide, iron, and biliverdin?
This condition is one of the most common cancers among children, but it actually more prevalent amongst adults
What is leukemia?
This factor helps platelets stick to damaged blood vessel walls
What is von Willebrand factor?
These blood types can donate to B+
What is O-,O+, B-,B+?
These are the 3 types of transfusions
What are whole, cell, and plasma?
This type of jaundice has light feces and dark urine
What is obstructive jaundice?
This is caused when there is a lack of nutrients, leading to a lack of RBC maturation
What is nutrient deficient anemia?
This organ is where most of the coagulation factors produced
What is the liver?
A mom with the genotype AADd and a dad with the genotype BOdd could have a child with these genotypes
What are ABDd, ABdd, AODd, AOdd?
These are the reasons why it is worse for a patient's antibodies to be activated than for a donor's antibodies to be activated
What is the immune response will be more aggressive in the patient?
This type of jaundice has low levels of direct bilirubin and high levels of indirect bilirubin
What is prehepatic jaundice?
This is a normal WBC count
What is 5,000 to 9,000 per microliter
These two factors are released when platelets stick to the blood vessel wall
What is thromboxane and ADP?
A mom with Type A+ and a dad with Type O+ could have a baby with these blood types
What is A+, O+, A-, O-?
A Type AB+ patient receives Type O+ cells. This is what happens.
What is no immune response?
This type of polycythemia occurs with cancer
What is polycythemia vera?
This type of anemia is treated by immunosuppressive drugs
What is bone marrow aplasia/aplastic anemia?
This factor is where the intrinsic and extrinsic pathways merge
What is prothrombinase?
A mom is Type B+ and her baby is Type AB-. The father could have these blood types.
What is A-, A+, AB+, or AB-?
A type AB+ patient receives type O- plasma. This is what happens?
What is an aggressive immune response?