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What is osmotic hemolysis?

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It is the destruction of red blood cells due to their immersion in hypotonic solution,leading to an inflow of water απδ swelling to their maximum threshold resulting in bursting απδ consequent release of hemoglobin.

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Oxidative hemolysis is destruction of red blood cells due to oxidation. It's usually caused by medication.

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Hemolysis is the bursting of red blood cells (hemo- blood and lysis- bursting). There are three types of solutions that blood can be put into: hypertonic, hypotonic and isotonic. The names of these give you some clue as to how the cell will behave in solution. Hypertonic solutions have greater osmotic pressure than the cells they contain, which will cause the cell to shrivel as its contents diffuse into the solution. Hypotonic solutions have less osmotic pressure than the cells inside of them, so the contents of solution will diffuse across the cell membrane and into the cell, eventually causing it to swell and burst (hemolysis). Isotonic solutions have osmotic pressure equal to that of the solutes they contain, so no net change is observed.


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