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1. Is HS extravascular or intravascular?






2. What causes the physiologic chloride shift and What does the chloride shift do?






3. what proteins can be defective in HS?






4. adults - auer rods - inc circulating myeblasts on peripheral smear






5. What virus can cause an aplastic crisis in pts with HS?






6. What is the main source of energy in RBCs






7. What converts plasminogen to plasm and What does plasmin do?






8. What does the large SA:volume ratio in RBCs help facilitate?






9. What is the life spance of a platelet?






10. Where do B cells arise from - mature - and migrate to...






11. Serum iron - transferrin - ferritin lab values for iron def anemia






12. hypersegmented PMNs - glossitis - dec B12 - inc homocysteine - inc methymalonic acid






13. Can B cells function as APCs?






14. What are the azuraphilic granules in PMNs






15. Is G6PD intravascular or extravascular






16. Where are mast cells found






17. t(8;14) c - myc gene






18. What finding you do you see in patients after splenectomy






19. Fibrotic obliteration of bone marow with teardrop cells


20. What does decreasing heme do to ALA synthase activity?






21. Who are the professional APCs?






22. What is the Ddx for a normocytic - normochromic anemia?






23. What is appropriate absolyte polycythemia associated with






24. How are plasma cells characterized?






25. What percentage of WBCs are monocytes?






26. Which pathway and factors are tested in the PTT test






27. HTLV-1






28. What causes hydrops fetalis






29. What do the iron studies show in sideroblastic anemia






30. What do the platelets bind? What is the step called






31. What does bradykinin do?






32. inc WBC count with left shift - inc leukocyte alkaline phosphatase - often due to infection






33. Which substrates begin the heme synthesis pathway






34. hypersegmented PMNs - glossitis - dec folate - inc homocysteine - nl methylmalonic acid






35. tennis rackets on EM






36. What is the treatment to prevent a woman from forming anti Rh antibody?






37. What the alpha granules contain in platelets?






38. What do you see a starry sky appearance in Burkitt






39. What is the therapy for the M3 variant?






40. What are some causes of warm agglutinin autoimmune hemolytic anemia?






41. What vitamin is a cofactor for the first step of heme synthesis






42. What are the two substances produced by eosinophils help limit the reaction following mast cell degranulation?






43. What indicated a good prognosis in Hodgkin lymphoma?






44. What is the result of thrombocytopenia or platelet dysfunction?






45. Crew cut on skull xray due to marrow supression - 8% of AA population - single amino acid replacement in beta chain at position 6 - after a DNA point mutation






46. In hemophilia A or B What do you see in the coag tests






47. inhibition of ferrochelatase and ALA dehydrogenase leading to dec heme synthesis - also inhibition of rRNA degradation






48. What is the life span of a normal RBC






49. What are the main associations with multiple myeloma?






50. What is the characteristic spread of Hodgkin Lymphoma