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1. What is the treatment for sideroblastic anemia






2. Bone pain plus anemia






3. What is the enzyme defect in Porphyria cutanea tarda






4. Production of mutant factor V that cannot by degraded by protein C - most common cause of inherited hypercoaguability






5. drug that inhibits ADP induced expression of GpIIb/IIIa






6. dec haptoglobin - inc LDH - hemoglobin in urine (paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria - mechanical destruction as in aortic stenosis or a prosthetic valve






7. hypocellular bone marrown tih fatty infiltration






8. What signal activates MACS






9. Who are the professional APCs?






10. 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






11. What cell is primarily involved in non Hod lymph






12. What does 'Neutrophils Like Making Everything Better' stand for?






13. What is the affected enzyme in lead poisoning






14. How does vWD cause elevated PTT?






15. iron deficiency anemia - esophageal web - atrophic glossitis






16. What is makes a leukemia acute






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






18. Which drugs can cause macrocytic anemia?






19. Adults present with cutaneous patches/nodules - indolent CD4+






20. Drug that inhbits the GpIIb/IIIa directly






21. What does STOP Making New Thrombi stand for






22. t(11:22)






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






24. X linked - dec glutathione inc RBC susceptibility to oxidative stress






25. What activates the fibrinolytic pathway?






26. What are the variants of the RS cells






27. Ddx for microcytic anemia






28. Defect in proteins interacting with RBC membrane skeleton and plasma membrane






29. RBCs damagaed from passing through obstructed - narrowed vessel lumina






30. Intrinsic pathway coagulation defect and defect in platelet plug formation - most common inherited bleeding disorder - AD






31. Conditions of defective heme synthesis leading to accumulation of heme precurors






32. What are the pro aggregation factors?






33. What is the effect of ACE on bradykinin






34. What is hemophiliia A






35. Serum iron - transferrin - ferritin lab values for pregs - OCP use






36. What does increasing heme do to ALA synthase activity






37. What does Vit K deficiency cause?






38. What is the presenting scenario for TTP?






39. What is the age group most commonly affected by multiple myeloma






40. What are some causes of cold agglutinin anemia






41. What does antithrombin do and What activates it?






42. Mutation in 3' untranslated region associated with venous clots






43. What is the therapy for the M3 variant?






44. What is the characteristic lab finding on electrophoresis






45. What is the affected enzyme in acute intermittment porphyria






46. What condition can result from treating AML M3 from the release of the Auer rods






47. What is a metabolic disorder tht can cause macrocytic anemia?






48. Does CML have a JAK2 mut






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






50. What distinguishes multiple myeloma fromk Waldenstroms macroglobulinemia?