Normochromic anemia

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Normochromic is a form of anemia in which the concentration of hemoglobin in the red blood cells is within the standard range. However, there are insufficient numbers of red blood cells. This includes: aplastic, posthemorrhagic, and hemolytic anemias and anemia of chronic disease.

synonymous with normocytic anemia

Pathology: hematology · hematologic diseases of RBCs and megakaryocytes / MEP (D50-69,74, 280-287)

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Micro-: Iron deficiency anemia (Plummer-Vinson syndrome)

Macro-: Megaloblastic anemia (Pernicious anemia)

Hemolytic
(mostly Normo-)

Aplastic
(mostly Normo-)

Hereditary: Fanconi anemia · Diamond–Blackfan anemia

Acquired: PRCA · Sideroblastic anemia · Myelophthisic

Blood tests

MCV (Normocytic, Microcytic, Macrocytic) · MCHC (Normochromic, Hypochromic)

Other

Methemoglobinemia · Sulfhemoglobinemia · Reticulocytopenia

Coagulation/
coagulopathy

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Hyper-
coagulability

primary: Antithrombin III deficiency · Protein C deficiency/Activated protein C resistance/Protein S deficiency/Factor V Leiden · Hyperprothrombinemia
acquired:Thrombocytosis (essential) · DIC (Congenital afibrinogenemia, Purpura fulminans) · autoimmune (Antiphospholipid)

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Hypo-
coagulability

Thrombocytopenia	Thrombocytopenic purpura: ITP (Evans syndrome) · TM (TTP) Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia · May-Hegglin anomaly

Platelet function	adhesion (Bernard–Soulier syndrome) · aggregation (Glanzmann's thrombasthenia) · platelet storage pool deficiency (Hermansky–Pudlak syndrome, Gray platelet syndrome)

Clotting factor	Hemophilia (A/VIII, B/IX, C/XI) • Von Willebrand disease • Hypoprothrombinemia/II · XIII · Dysfibrinogenemia

M: MYL

cell/phys (coag, heme, immu, gran), csfs

rbmg/mogr/tumr/hist, sysi/epon, btst

drug (B1/2/3+5+6), btst, trns

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