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Does reticulocytosis cause a macrocytic anemia?
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Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Does reticulocytosis cause a macrocytic anemia?
I wanted to check a fact with you because my friend and I were confused by something in First Aid, and it wasn’t listed in one of the errata for the new edition. Under non-megaloblastic macrocytic anemias, it lists liver disease, alcoholism, reticulocytosis, and drugs such as 5FU and AZT and hydroxyurea as potential etiologies. Is this right?
Read more:
Does reticulocytosis cause a macrocytic anemia?
Source: Pathology Student
Art and Science of Laboratory Medicine
Read more:
Does reticulocytosis cause a macrocytic anemia?
Source: Pathology Student
Art and Science of Laboratory Medicine
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YEs it does. Excessive reticulocytosis will cause macrocytosis
|Their number increases in the peripheral blood following Erythroid activity in the bone marrow.They may occur when there is reduction in number of RED cells in the peripheral blood.,e.g. by hemorrhage or abnormal hemolysis. the reticulocyte count is of value in pernicious/ megaloblastic anemias,for improvement is indicated by a rise in reticulocytes in the peripheral blood. ^-^
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