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level: Level 2

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level questions: Level 2

Question	Answer
Losing blood which cause low/decrease of red blood cell →decrease oxygen carrying capacity → and form anemia Treatment: 1. more red blood cells 2. fluids 3. might have to go surgically fix whatever vessel it its severely damaged people that have Helicobacter Pylori or they have been taking NSAIDs for a very long time, they can develop peptic ulcers	Hemorrhagic anemia
- kind of misnomer - affect RBC, PLATELETS, WBC - hemocytoblast gets converted into a myeloid stem cell and it gets converted into a lymphoid stem people with 65% of this anemia is idiopathic caused by drugs, chloramphenicol, or by benzenes, or streptomycin; destruction of the bone marrow; destroying the myloid stem cell which destroys the 3 lineages; • low blood cells • low white blood cells • low platelets (thrombocytopenia) Called: Pancytopenia	Aplastic Anemia
deficiency of all three cellular components of the blood (red cells, white cells, and platelets).	pancytopenia
Aplastic Anemia Treatment:	• bone marrow transplant • undergo certain types of transfusions • With the destruction of the bone marrow there's not much you can do besides just trying to treat the symptoms • Treat with antibiotics
- more common within the Mediterranean ancestry - actually genetic condition another type of microcytic anemia because the mean corpuscular volume is less than 90 femtoliters treat with transfusions, iron supplements, getting oxygen or bone stem cell transplant	Thalassemia
1) 1 alpha + 2 beta 2) 2 alpha + 1 beta	1 Alpha thalassemia 2 Beta thalassemia
red protein that is anchoring to the spectrin to the actual transmembrane protein	Anchorin