Normochromic anemia

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Normochromic is a form of anemia in which the concentration of haemoglobin in the red blood cells is within the standard range.

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v • d • e Pathology: hematology · myeloid hematologic disease (primarily D50-D77 · 280-289) Red blood cells ↑ Polycythemia · Macrocytosis ↓ Anemia Nutritional Micro-: Iron deficiency anemia (Plummer-Vinson syndrome) Macro-: Megaloblastic anemia (Pernicious anemia) Hemolytic (mostly Normo-; thalassemia) Hereditary enzymopathy: G6PD · glycolysis (PK, TI, HK) hemoglobinopathy: Thalassemia (alpha, beta, delta)  · Sickle-cell disease/trait · HPFH membrane: Hereditary spherocytosis (Minkowski-Chauffard syndrome) · Hereditary elliptocytosis (Ovalocytosis) · Hereditary stomatocytosis Acquired Autoimmune (WAHA, CAD, PCH) membrane (PNH) MAHA · TM (HUS) Drug-induced autoimmune hemolytic anemia · Drug-induced nonautoimmune hemolytic anemia 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/ bleeding diathesis ↑ Thrombocytosis Essential thrombocytosis Hypercoagulability primary: Antithrombin III deficiency · Protein C deficiency/Activated protein C resistance/Protein S deficiency/Factor V Leiden · Hyperprothrombinemia acquired: DIC (Congenital afibrinogenemia, Purpura fulminans) · autoimmune (Antiphospholipid) ↓ Thrombocytopenia/ purpura Nonthrombocytopenic purpura: Henoch-Schönlein 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 Monocytes/ macrophages ↑ Histiocytosis · Chronic granulomatous disease -cytosis: Monocytosis ↓ -penia: Monocytopenia Granulocytes ↑ -cytosis: granulocytosis (Neutrophilia, Eosinophilia, Basophilia, Bandemia) ↓ -penia: Granulocytopenia/agranulocytosis (Neutropenia/Kostmann syndrome · Eosinopenia · Basopenia) see also myeloid malignancy and immune disorders ↑ means increased, ↓ means decreased

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