Pathology Assignment 3
Pathology Assignment 3
Pathology Assignment 3
MD 4 Summer 2015
1. Please draw the Hematopoiesis flow chart from Stem cell to mature
cell (both Myeloid and lymphoid series).
2. Explain in a flowchart - hemolytic anemia leading to gall stones
3. What are the lab findings in intravascular hemolysis and extra
vascular hemolysis
4. Explain hereditary spherocytosis
5. What are Heinz bodies, Howell Jolly bodies
6. For each of the following give few conditions where we see those
cells in peripheral blood and reasons that are causing appearance of
those cells in each condition
a. Anisocytosis
b. Poikilocytosis
c. Tear drop cell
d. Bite cell
e. Schistocyte
7. How G6PD deficiency can lead to hemolytic anemia, please write
flow chart of G6PD role in production of NADPH and break down of
H2O2
8. Please write down pathophysiology of sickle cell anemia
9. How sickle cell anemia can lead to autosplenectomy
10. Explain both alfa and beta thalssemias in detail ( including
subtypes)
Iron deficiency Anemia
11. Explain absorption and transportation of Iron in to the body
12. What is the normal iron content in the body
13. What are transferrin, haptoglobin, hepcidin, total iron binding
capacity
14. Pathogenesis Anemia of chronic disease can lead to iron deficiency
anemia
15 Lab findings in Anemia of chronic disease
Megaloblastic anemia:
16. How B12 & folic acid deficiency can lead to megaloblastic anemia (
flow chart)
17. Differences between folate and megaloblastic anemias and lab
differences