Q. Why is there splenomegaly in hemolytic anemias with intravascular hemolysis?
So we had this lecture on malaria on Thursday, and I decided that we needed a little object lesson to go along with it.
Q. I wanted to check a fact with you because my friend and I were confused by something in First Aid, and it wasn’t listed in one of the errata for the new edition.
Q. While doing some reproductive medicine practice questions in a boards question bank I came across one I couldn’t reason through and was hoping you could help:
Here’s a case that many a first-year pathology resident has missed. Once.
Q. This may be a silly question but…On the topic of anemia and increased RBC destruction, the lecture notes state that the spleen removes unusual shaped RBCs, causing anemia.
Happy New Year everyone! I hope you have a safe and fun New Year’s Eve…and a peaceful and happy 2013.
Here’s another case in our series of unknowns (the last one is here). This is the type of thing you might see in an unknown slide set if you were a pathology resident,
Q. How do you tell apart aplastic anemia and pancytopenia? A. This is an interesting question, because we’re comparing a distinct disease (aplastic anemia) with a generalized blood finding (pancytopenia).
Aplastic anemia falls into the category of “anemias-in-which-the-cells-don’t-look-weird” category.
