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STEP 1: Heme

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Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia:
Warm

Ig__
Seen in _____, _____, or with use of ____.



G
SLE, CLL, a-methyldopa
Rh incompatibility between mother and child is a form of _____ _____ anemia.
Warm Agglutinin
Autoimmune Hemolytic
Acute IgM

1. Serum Iron low
Transferrin high

2. Serum Iron low
Transferrin low

3. Serum iron high
Transferrin low






1. Iron def. anemia
2. Chronic dx anemia
3. Hemochromatosis

Porphyrias are caused by defects in ______ that lead to ________.
Heme synthesis, accumulation of heme precursors
causes inhibition of ferrrochelatase and ALA dehydroegenase
Lead Poisoning
Porphobilinogen deaminase
1. Condition
2. Accumulated substrate

1. Acute intermittent porphyria
2. d-ALA, porphobilinogen
Pink / purple urine
Acute intermittent porphyria
Most common porphyria
Think Blisters
Porphyria cutanea tarda

Defective enzyme: Uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase

Tea colored urine
Blisters
Porpyria Cutana Tarda
Treatment for Lead Poisoning
Dimercaprol, EDTA

Succimer for kids

"Ed needed a dime to treat his lead poisoning"

"It sucks to be a kid with lead poisoning"





Anti G2b3a kills platelets
ITP
A lot of vWF multimers
TTP
No ADAMS 13 to _______.
TTP
degrade vWF multimers
Tests EXtrinsic pathway / factors _____
PT, 1,2,5,7,9
Tests INtrinsic pathway, factors _____.
PTT, all but 7 and 13
PTT is up, easy bruising, bleeding in joints
Hemophilias

A: no factor 8
B: no factor 9


PT and PTT up
Think these 2 scenerios:
____, _____



Vitamin K deficiency
liver or kidney failure

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