Hematology

High Yield
Notes
by
AfraTafreeh.com

Pathology
Table of Contents
Congenital Anemia 1
Overview 2
Diamond-Blackfan Anemia 2
Fanconi Anemia (FA) 4

Dysplastic & Proliferative Disorders 6

Essential Thrombovytosis 7
Langerhans Cell Histiocytes 8
Leukemoid Reaction 10
Myelodysplastic Syndrome 11
Polycythemia Vera 12
Primary Myelofibrosis 14
D&P disorders overview 15

Hypercoagulable Disorders 16
Antiphospholipid Syndrome 17
Antithrombin III Deficienct 18
Factor V Leiden FVL 19
Protein C Deficiency 20
Protein S Deficiency 21

Hypocoagulable Disorders 22
Disseminted Intravascular Coagulation 22
Hemophilia A 24
Hemophilia B 25
Von Willebrand Disease 26

Leukemias 27
Acute Lymphoid Leukemia 28
Acute Myeloid Leukemia 29
Chronic Lymphoid Leukemia 31
Chronic Myeloid Leukemia 33
Characteristics of CML 34
Table of Contents
Lymphomas 35
Hodgkin’s vs Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma 36
Hodgkin’s Lymphoma 36
Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma 38
Types of NHL 39

Macrocytic Anemia 42
Megaloblastic Anemia 42
Sideroblastic Anemia 44

Methemoglobinemia 46

Microcytic Anemia 48
Iron-Deficiency Anemia 49
Lead Poisoning-Related Anemia 50
Thalassemia 51

Normocytic Anemia (Decreased Hemolysis) 54

Anemia of Chronic Disease 54
Aplastic Anemia 56

Normocytic Anemia (Increased Hemolysis) 58

Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia (AHA) 58
Classification 59
Glucose-6-Dehydrogenase Deficiency 60
Hemolytic Disease of the Newborn 62
Hereditary Spherocytosis 64
Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria (PNH) 65
Pyruvate Kinase Deficiency 67
Sickle Cell Anemia 68

Plasma Cell Dyscrasias 71

Monoclonal Gammopathy of Undetermined Significance MGUS 71
Multiple Myeloma 72
Table of Contents
Waldenstorm Macroglobulinemia 75

Platelet Disorder 77
Bernar-Soulier Syndrome 77
Glanzmann’s Thrombasthenia 78

Porphyria 80
Acute Intermittent Porphyria 81
Porphyria Cutanea Tarda 82

Spleen Pathology 84
Asplenia 85
Ruptured Spleen 86
Spleenic Injury Scale 87

Thrombocytopenia 88
Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia 88
HIT Types 89
Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura 90
Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura 92
Lab values in TTP 93

Thymus Neoplasia 94
Thymoma 95
1
afratafreeh.com exclusive

2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
afratafreeh.com exclusive

10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
afratafreeh.com exclusive

20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
afratafreeh.com exclusive

40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
afratafreeh.com exclusive

60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
afratafreeh.com exclusive

80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96