A 30-year-old female with known sickle cell disease (SCD) presents with sudden worsening of anemia (hemoglobin 5 g/dL), severe abdominal pain, and fatigue. On examination, she is hypotensive and has abdominal tenderness with splenomegaly. Laboratory findings reveal elevated reticulocyte count and a peripheral blood smear showing sickled cells. what is the cause of her acute presentation?
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الإجابة: B. Spleen sequestration crisis.
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Step Up To Medicine 6th, 2024 (Anemias).pdf · p. 22
Sudden drop in Hb with abdominal pain, splenomegaly and hypotension is a splenic sequestration crisis: blood pools rapidly in the spleen, causing hypovolaemic shock. The marrow is still working, so reticulocytes stay high.
- Aplastic crisis has a low reticulocyte count and no acute splenic enlargement.
- A haemolytic crisis does not explain the painful enlarging spleen and shock.
- Iron deficiency is not an acute event.
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- Step Up To Medicine 6th, 2024 (Anemias).pdf · p. 22
Hematology🩸.pdf · p. 19 - المحاضرة
- Haemoglobinopathies (SCD, Thalassaemia) · Hematology · Module C
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- MED42 ♀ EOM C