Types Of Hemolytic Anemia, A Simple Guide To The Condition, Treatment And Related Conditions

by Kenneth Kee

Overview

Hemolytic anemia is the breakup of red blood cells in the blood earlier than normal.
Hemolytic anemia is a condition in which the body destroys too many red blood cells.
Inherited or acquired conditions or factors can cause hemolytic anemia.
Inherited hemolytic anemia is condition such as G6PD Deficiency.
Other examples include:
1. Immune disorders,
Immune hemolytic anemia occurs when the immune system mistakenly sees the own red blood cells as foreign substances.
Antibodies then develop against the red blood cells.
These antibodies attack the red blood cells and cause them to break down too early.
2. Infections
3. Certain medicines,
4. Reactions to blood transfusions.
Hemolytic anemia occurs when excessive red blood cells that are being destroyed before the bone marrow could replace them.
The body may also destroy red blood cells because of certain genetic defects that cause the blood cells to take on abnormal shapes (such as sickle cell)
1. Auto-Immune hemolytic anemia occurs when the immune system produces antibodies against the red blood cells.
These antibodies attack the red blood cells and cause them to break down too early.
2. Certain genetic defects such as sickle cell anemia, thalassemia, and hemolytic anemia due to G6PD deficiency
3. Exposure to certain chemicals, drugs, and toxins
4. Infections
5. Blood clots in small blood vessels
6. Transfusion of blood
Early Symptoms may include:
1. Fatigue or weakness with exercise
2. Feeling grumpy
3. Giddiness
4. Headaches
5. Concentration or thinking problems
These tests can identify the type of hemolytic anemia:
a. Absolute reticulocyte count
b. Coombs' test, direct
c. Coombs' test, indirect
d. Donath-Landsteiner test
e. Febrile or cold agglutinins
f. Free hemoglobin in the serum or urine
g. Hemosiderin in the urine
i. Protein electrophoresis - serum
j. Urine and fecal urobilinogen
k. Platelet count
l. Serum haptoglobin levels
m. Serum LDH
A test that measures how long red blood cells last using radioactive tagging techniques can also help diagnose hemolytic anemia
Treatment depends on the type and cause of the hemolytic anemia.
1. In emergencies, a blood transfusion may be needed.
2. For hemolytic anemia caused by an overactive immune system, drugs that suppress the immune system may be used.
3. Extra folic acid and iron supplements to replace what is being lost.
4. The spleen may need to be removed, because it acts as a filter, removing abnormal cells from the blood.

TABLE OF CONTENT
Introduction
Chapter 1 Hemolytic Anemia
Chapter 2 More Facts about Hemolytic Anemia
Chapter 3 Treatment of Hemolytic Anemia
Chapter 4 Anemia
Chapter 5 Sickle Cell Anemia
Chapter 6 G6PD Deficiency
Chapter 7 Iron Deficiency Anemia
Chapter 8 Thalassemia
Epilogue

Product Details

BN ID:	2940153909219
Publisher:	Kenneth Kee
Publication date:	12/12/2016
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	133 KB

About the Author

Medical doctor since 1972.

Started Kee Clinic in 1974 at 15 Holland Dr #03-102, relocated to 36 Holland Dr #01-10 in 2009.

Did my M.Sc (Health Management ) in 1991 and Ph.D (Healthcare Administration) in 1993.

Dr Kenneth Kee is still working as a family doctor at the age of 74

However he has reduced his consultation hours to 3 hours in the morning and 2 hours in
the afternoon.

He first started writing free blogs on medical disorders seen in the clinic in 2007 on http://kennethkee.blogspot.com.

His purpose in writing these simple guides was for the health education of his patients which is also his dissertation for his Ph.D (Healthcare Administration). He then wrote an autobiography account of his journey as a medical student to family doctor on his other blog http://afamilydoctorstale.blogspot.com

This autobiography account “A Family Doctor’s Tale” was combined with his early “A Simple Guide to Medical Disorders” into a new Wordpress Blog “A Family Doctor’s Tale” on http://ken-med.com.

From which many free articles from the blog was taken and put together into 1000 eBooks.

He apologized for typos and spelling mistakes in his earlier books.

He will endeavor to improve the writing in futures.

Some people have complained that the simple guides are too simple.
For their information they are made simple in order to educate the patients.
The later books go into more details of medical disorders.

He has published 1000 eBooks on various subjects on health, 1 autobiography of his medical journey, another on the autobiography of a Cancer survivor, 2 children stories and one how to study for his nephew and grand-daughter.

The purpose of these simple guides is to educate patient on health disorders and not meant as textbooks.

He does not do any night duty since 2000 ever since Dr Tan had his second stroke.

His clinic is now relocated to the Buona Vista Community Centre.

The 2 units of his original clinic are being demolished to make way for a new Shopping Mall.

He is now doing some blogging and internet surfing (bulletin boards since the 1980's) starting
with the Apple computer and going to PC.

The entire PC is upgraded by himself from XT to the present Pentium duo core.

The present Intel i7 CPU is out of reach at the moment because the CPU is still expensive.

He is also into DIY changing his own toilet cistern and other electric appliance.

His hunger for knowledge has not abated and he is a lifelong learner.

The children have all grown up and there are 2 grandchildren who are even more technically advanced than the grandfather where mobile phones are concerned.

This book is taken from some of the many articles in his blog (now with 740 posts) A Family Doctor’s Tale.

Dr Kee is the author of:

"A Family Doctor's Tale"

"Life Lessons Learned From The Study And Practice Of Medicine"

"Case Notes From A Family Doctor"