Having looked at the causes of hemolytic anemia in a general way (we grouped them into hereditary and acquired groups, and defined the general clinical characteristics of each), let’s take a closer look at the specific kinds of hemolytic anemia. (more…)
Here’s a nice boards – type question that requires you to put together some clinical and laboratory data to form a diagnosis, and then describe what the blood smear would look like. (more…)
We’ve been talking a lot about hemolytic anemias – we talked about how to figure out if your patient has a hemolytic anemia, and we talked about the DAT as a test that you would do to determine whether your patient’s hemolytic anemia falls into the immune category (warm or cold autoimmune hemolytic anemia) or the non-immune category. (more…)
Okay, we’ve talked a lot about the DAT, and how it’s used to determine whether your patient’s hemolytic anemia is due to immune causes (warm or cold autoimmune hemolytic anemia). (more…)
We talked recently about the direct antiglobulin test (DAT) which is a test used to find out whether a hemolytic anemia is immune-related or not. And we talked even more recently about the immune hemolytic anemias, starting off with warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia. (more…)
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