Name two conditions which might cause normocytic anaemia
Back
Card 7
Front
On a blood film for someone with microcytic anaemia red cells with be: microcytic and hypochromic - what do these two things mean?
Back
Card 8
Front
Microcytic blood film will also show poikilocytosis and anisocytosis. What do these terms mean?
Back
Card 9
Front
In microcytic anaemia describe what will happen to serum iron and serum ferritin. What does serrum ferritin represent?
Back
Card 10
Front
Anaemia of chronic disease can be normocytic or microcytic - true or false?
Back
Card 11
Front
How would values of soluble transferrin receptor and total iron binding capacity change if someone developed in someone with IDA? How would this differ in anaemia of chronic disease?
Back
Card 12
Front
What would serum iron be like in someone with anaemia of chronic disease.
Back
Card 13
Front
Describe how B12 / folate deficiency leads to macrocytic anaemia.
Back
Card 14
Front
Which organ is a large store of B12? How is B12 normally excreted? Is the majority of B12 reabsorbed or excreted?
Back
Card 15
Front
What needs to bind to B12 to prevent it from being protelytically degraded and what cell secretes this?
