Quiz on Anisosytes and Poikilocytes

What is the expected result in the peripheral blood smear if the results in the machines shows increased RDW (red blood cell distribution width)?

• Dimorphic population

• Polychromasia

• Asynchronous maturation

• Increased number of nucleated RBCs

A patient has chronic inflammation for the last 2 years and has now complicated into anemia due to iron trapping. What is the expected morphological appearance of the cells?

• Normocytic, normochromic

• Macrocytic, normochromic

• Microcytic, hypochromic

• None of the choices

A patient has cyanobalamin deficiency, what is the expected morphology of the red blood cells?

• Normocytic, normochromic

• Macrocytic, normochromic

• Microcytic, hypochromic

• None of the choices

What is the condition in the image shown?

• Polychromasia

• Hyperchromic RBCs

• Hypochromic RBCs

• Dimorphism

• Poikilocytosis

What is the condition in the image shown?

• Polychromasia

• Hyperchromic RBCs

• Hypochromic RBCs

• Dimorphism

• Poikilocytosis

Which of the following is very valuable in protecting the hemoglobin from oxidation?

• Embden Meyerhof Pathway

• Hexose Monophosphate Shunt

• Methemoglobin Reduction Pathway

• Rapoport-Luebering Pathway

Identify the poikilocyte

Which of the following will NOT result to a microcytic, hypochromic cells?

• Iron deficiency anemia

• Hereditary spherocytosis

• Thalassemia

• Sideroblastic anemia

Identify the pointed poikilocyte

Which of the following cell will result to an anticoagulated blood stored for several hours?

• Burr cells

• Echinocytes

• Codocytes

• Acanthocyte

• Stomatocytes