Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Haematology
- Main causes of anaemia
- Problems with production
- Marrow function
- aplastic anaemia
- diet
- Iron deficiency results in smaller RBC
- microcytic anaemia
- B12/follate deficiency results in larger RBC
- macrocytic anaemia
- premature destruction
- auto-immune or mechanical
- Haemolytic Anaemia
- RBC structural defects
- Hereditary Spherocytosis
- disorders of the rate of globin synthesis
- Thalassaemias (a or b)
- mutated haemoglobin (HbS)
- Sickle Cell
Anaemia
- blood loss
- Ulcers
- Menstruation
- Trauma
- Symptoms and signs of anaemia
- General
- Shortness of breath
- Weakness
- Lethargy
- Cardiac failure in older patients
- Pallor of mucous membranes
- Specific
- „Spoon nails‟ with iron deficiency
- Leg ulcers with Sickle cell anaemia