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Updated: Dec 15 2021

Pathological RBC Forms

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https://upload.medbullets.com/topic/121655/images/basophilic stippling.jpg
https://upload.medbullets.com/topic/121655/images/ringed sideroblast.jpg
https://upload.medbullets.com/topic/121655/images/sickle cell.jpg
https://upload.medbullets.com/topic/121655/images/tear drop.jpg
https://upload.medbullets.com/topic/121655/images/heinz bodies.jpg
https://upload.medbullets.com/topic/121655/images/howell jolly.jpg
https://upload.medbullets.com/topic/121655/images/target cell.jpg
  • Overview
      • Type
      • Example
      • Associated Pathology
      • Acanthocyte (spur cell)
      • Liver disease
      •  Abetalipoproteinemia
      • Basophilic stippling
      • Lead poisoning
      • Bite cell
      • G6PD deficiency
      • Elliptocyte
      • Hereditary elliptocytosis
      • Macro-ovalocyte
      • Megaloblastic anemia
      •  Marrow failure
      • Ringed sideroblasts
      • Sideroblastic anemia
      • Schistocyte/helmet cell
      • DIC
      •  TTP/HUS
      •  Traumatic hemolysis
      • Sickle cell
      • Sickle cell anemia
      • Spherocyte
      • Hereditary spherocytosis
      •  Autoimmune hemolysis
      • Teardrop cell (dacrocyte)
      • Bone marrow infiltration (e.g. myelofibrosis) 
      • Target cell
      • Asplenia
      •  Liver disease
      •  Thalassemia
      •  HbC disease
      • Heinz bodies
      • Oxidation of iron:
      • changes from ferrous (2+) to ferric (3+)
      •  Denaturation of hemoglobin:
      • results in precipitation
      • damages RBC membrane
      •  Macrophages attempt to remove:
      • forms bite cells (See above)
      •  Associated with α-thalassemia and G6PD deficiency
      • Howell-Jolly bodies
      • Basophilic nuclear remnants found in RBCs
      •  Associated with functional hyposplenia or asplenia 
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