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Haematology
Basically it's just haematolgy
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Medical
Undergraduate 1
05/11/2009

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Pancytopenia
Definition
Anaemia + Neutropenia + Thrombocytopenia
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Causes of Pancytopenia
Definition
Bone marrow failure or hypersplenism
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Cause of bone marrow failure
Definition
aplastic anaemia, myelodysplastic syndromes, acute leukaemia, drugs or malignant non-haemopoietic infiltration
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Causes of hypersplenism
Definition
haematological disease, splenic congestion, systemic disease
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Symptoms of neutropenia
Definition
infections
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Symptoms of anaemia
Definition
shortness of breath, fatigue, cardiovascular compromise
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symptoms of thrombocytopenia
Definition
purpura, bruising, bleeding
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Waldeyer's ring
Definition
adenoid. tubal tonsil, palatine tonsil and lingual tonsil lymph nodes
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Chylous ascites
Definition
collection of lymph fluid in the abdominal cavity
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Malignant haemopoiesis
Definition
increased number of functionally inept cells with loss of haemopoietic reserve
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Monoclonal
Definition
Malignant haemopoiesis
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AML
Definition
Acute myeloid leukaemia, from the myeloid lineage, found in the elderly
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ALL
Definition
Acute lymphoblastic anaemia, malignant disease of lymphocytes, childhood cancer
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