Aplastic anemia falls into the category of “anemias-in-which-the-cells-don’t-look-weird” category.
Q. In a person with both anaemia and reticulocytosis, which is the LEAST LIKELY cause? A. acute blood loss B. vitamin b12 deficiency with folate therapy C. hereditary spherocytosis
When you look at a blood smear, it’s best to have a plan, and it’s best to try to follow it each time.
Q. I’m currently doing my rotations at Children’s Memorial Hospital’s blood bank and I was reading the standard operating procedure for washing red cells.
Q. Are anemia of chronic disease and iron deficiency anemia technically both iron-deficient conditions?
The term “left shift” means that a particular population of cells is “shifted” towards more immature precursors (meaning that there are more immature precursors present than you would normally see).
