This is designed to be short questions that take very little time but force you to review the material actively. Write down your answers, and then click the link at the bottom for the answers. The previous post was on Microcytic and Hypochromic anemias.
1. Basophilic stippling is associated with what three conditions?
2. What is the most common cause of hyopochromic microcytic anemias?
3. A mother presents her child who she claims is eating dirt out of the flower pots at home. What is the name of this symptom and what is the most likely cause?
4. In an iron deficient anemia do you expect the ferritin to be high or low? The transferrin?
5. The lab decided to do a prussian blue stain on a sample from an anemic patient. It comes back with ringed sideroblasts. What are three possible causes for the patients anemia?
6. A patient has anemia with a low reticulocytes count. Is he having a problem with destruction of RBC’s or production of RBC’s?
7. A 15 y/o patient presents with an Hgb of 6 and is originally from the Mediterranean. What is at the top of your differential?
