This document discusses anemias in children. It begins by defining anemia and classifying it based on etiology into impaired red cell formation, blood loss, and hemolytic anemia. It then describes the diagnosis of anemia through history, physical exam, and laboratory tests. Specific types of anemia are discussed in more detail, including iron deficiency anemia, megaloblastic anemia, bone marrow failure, Diamond-Blackfan anemia, Fanconi anemia, acquired aplastic anemia, and hemolytic anemias. Treatment options are provided for each condition.
Title: Understanding Anemia: Causes, Types, Clinical Features, and Diagnostic Investigations
Anemia is a condition characterized by a deficiency in the number or quality of red blood cells (RBCs) or hemoglobin in the blood, leading to reduced oxygen-carrying capacity. It is a prevalent global health issue affecting people of all ages, genders, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Understanding the causes, types, clinical features, and diagnostic investigations of anemia is crucial for effective management and treatment.
**Causes of Anemia:**
Anemia can result from various factors that disrupt the production, lifespan, or function of red blood cells. Some common causes include:
1. **Iron Deficiency:** Insufficient intake or absorption of iron, essential for hemoglobin synthesis, is a primary cause of anemia globally. It can stem from poor dietary intake, chronic blood loss (e.g., menstruation, gastrointestinal bleeding), or increased demand during pregnancy.
2. **Vitamin Deficiencies:** Deficiencies in vitamins such as vitamin B12 (cobalamin) or folate (vitamin B9) can impair RBC production, leading to megaloblastic anemia.
3. **Chronic Diseases:** Conditions like chronic kidney disease, inflammatory disorders (e.g., rheumatoid arthritis), and infections can disrupt erythropoiesis (RBC production) or accelerate RBC destruction, causing anemia.
4. **Hemolytic Disorders:** Inherited or acquired conditions that increase the breakdown (hemolysis) of red blood cells, such as sickle cell disease, thalassemia, or autoimmune hemolytic anemia, can result in anemia.
5. **Bone Marrow Disorders:** Diseases affecting the bone marrow, including leukemia, myelodysplastic syndromes, and aplastic anemia, can lead to decreased RBC production and anemia.
**Types of Anemia:**
Anemia is classified based on the underlying mechanism or etiology, leading to several types:
1. **Iron-Deficiency Anemia:** Characterized by low iron levels, resulting in decreased hemoglobin synthesis and microcytic (small-sized) RBCs.
2. **Megaloblastic Anemia:** Caused by impaired DNA synthesis in RBC precursors due to deficiencies in vitamin B12 or folate, leading to macrocytic (large-sized) RBCs.
3. **Hemolytic Anemia:** Occurs due to increased RBC destruction, either intravascularly (within blood vessels) or extravascularly (outside blood vessels), leading to various subtypes like autoimmune hemolytic anemia, hereditary spherocytosis, and sickle cell disease.
4. **Anemia of Chronic Disease:** Associated with chronic inflammation, infections, or malignancies, leading to impaired iron metabolism and decreased RBC production.
5. **Aplastic Anemia:** Results from bone marrow failure, leading to decreased production of all blood cell types, including RBCs.
**Clinical Features of Anemia:**
The clinical presentation of anemia can vary depending on its severity, underlying cause, and individual factors. Common clinical features include:
Title: Understanding Anemia: Causes, Types, Clinical Features, and Diagnostic Investigations
Anemia is a condition characterized by a deficiency in the number or quality of red blood cells (RBCs) or hemoglobin in the blood, leading to reduced oxygen-carrying capacity. It is a prevalent global health issue affecting people of all ages, genders, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Understanding the causes, types, clinical features, and diagnostic investigations of anemia is crucial for effective management and treatment.
**Causes of Anemia:**
Anemia can result from various factors that disrupt the production, lifespan, or function of red blood cells. Some common causes include:
1. **Iron Deficiency:** Insufficient intake or absorption of iron, essential for hemoglobin synthesis, is a primary cause of anemia globally. It can stem from poor dietary intake, chronic blood loss (e.g., menstruation, gastrointestinal bleeding), or increased demand during pregnancy.
2. **Vitamin Deficiencies:** Deficiencies in vitamins such as vitamin B12 (cobalamin) or folate (vitamin B9) can impair RBC production, leading to megaloblastic anemia.
3. **Chronic Diseases:** Conditions like chronic kidney disease, inflammatory disorders (e.g., rheumatoid arthritis), and infections can disrupt erythropoiesis (RBC production) or accelerate RBC destruction, causing anemia.
4. **Hemolytic Disorders:** Inherited or acquired conditions that increase the breakdown (hemolysis) of red blood cells, such as sickle cell disease, thalassemia, or autoimmune hemolytic anemia, can result in anemia.
5. **Bone Marrow Disorders:** Diseases affecting the bone marrow, including leukemia, myelodysplastic syndromes, and aplastic anemia, can lead to decreased RBC production and anemia.
**Types of Anemia:**
Anemia is classified based on the underlying mechanism or etiology, leading to several types:
1. **Iron-Deficiency Anemia:** Characterized by low iron levels, resulting in decreased hemoglobin synthesis and microcytic (small-sized) RBCs.
2. **Megaloblastic Anemia:** Caused by impaired DNA synthesis in RBC precursors due to deficiencies in vitamin B12 or folate, leading to macrocytic (large-sized) RBCs.
3. **Hemolytic Anemia:** Occurs due to increased RBC destruction, either intravascularly (within blood vessels) or extravascularly (outside blood vessels), leading to various subtypes like autoimmune hemolytic anemia, hereditary spherocytosis, and sickle cell disease.
4. **Anemia of Chronic Disease:** Associated with chronic inflammation, infections, or malignancies, leading to impaired iron metabolism and decreased RBC production.
5. **Aplastic Anemia:** Results from bone marrow failure, leading to decreased production of all blood cell types, including RBCs.
**Clinical Features of Anemia:**
The clinical presentation of anemia can vary depending on its severity, underlying cause, and individual factors. Common clinical features include:
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2. Anemia…
… abnormal low hemoglobin, hematocrit or RBC
count, lower than the age-adjusted
reference range for healthy children.
3. Etiologic classification
I Impaired red cell formation
A/ Deficiency
• Decreased dietary intake
• Increased demand
• Decreased absorption
• Increased loss
B/ Bone marrow failure
• Failure of a single or all cell lines
• Infiltration
C/Dyshematopoietic anemia
II Blood loss
III Hemolytic anemia
• Corpuscular (membrane, enzymatic or hemoglobine defects)
• Extracorpuscular (immune, idiopathic)
4. Diagnosis of Anemia
• detailed history
• careful physical
examination
• peripheral blood smear
– red cell morphology
– MCV
– RDW (red cell
distribution width)
– WBC and platelet
morphology
• Additionally:
-bone marrow
evaluation
-additional testing
5. History
- Diet (iron , folate, vitB12 intake, onset of hemolysis
after certain foods –e.g.,fava beans)
- family history (transfusion requirements of relatives,
splenectomy, gallblader disease)
- environmental exposures (lead poissoning)
- symptoms (headache, exertion dyspnea, fatigue,
dizziness, weakness, mood or sleep
disturbances, tinnitis)
- melena, hematemesis, abdominal pain- chronic
blood loss
11. Iron Deficiency Anemia
*characteristics of peripheral blood smear
– microcytic
– hypochromic
*MCV and Hgb– decreased (Hgb<12g/L)
– Ferritin – decreased (<13mg/dL)
– TIBC - high
-Serum iron –decreased (N 50-150 µg/dL)
12. Iron Deficiency Anemia
• Treatment
– oral iron supplementation: 4 - 6mg/kg/day of
elemental iron
– goal: to replace iron stores, not just circulating Hgb!
– Reticulocytes- starts to rise in 3 -4 days,
– Hbg- after 4- 5 days
– After Hgb normalisation – continue Fe therapy 1-2
months to replace Fe stores
– *Iron- rich foods:
animal protein, green vegetables, iron fortified
cereales
– Folate, vit C
13. parenteral therapy (IM,IV)
– indications
• poor compliance
• severe bowel disease
• intolerance of oral iron
• chronic hemorrhage
• acute diarrhea disorder
14. Megaloblastic anemia
• Presence the megaloblasts in the bone marrow and macrocytes in
the blood
• In > 95% occurs as a result of folate and vitamin B12 deficiency
• Deficiencies of ascorbic acid, tocopherol, thiamine may be related
to megaloblastic anemia
• Dietary vitamin B12 (cobalamine) is required from animal sources
(meat and milk)
15. Causes of vitamin B12 deficiency
I Inadequate dietary intake (<2mg/day) –malnutrition, veganism,
maternal deficiency
II Defective vitamin B12 absorption
• Failure to secrete intrinsic factor
• Failure to absorption in small intestine
III Defective vitamin B12 transport
IV Disorders of vitamin B12 metabolism (congenital, acquired)
16. Folic acid deficiency
• One of the most common micronutrient deficiences in the word
(next to iron deficiency)
• Component of malnutrition and starvation
• Women are more frequently affected than men
• Folate sufficiency prevents neural tube defects
• Low mean daily folate intake is associated with twofold increased
risk for preterm delivery and low infant birth weight
17. Causes of folic acid deficiency
• Inadequate intake (method of cooking, special diet, goat’ milk)
• Defective absorption (congenital or acquired)
• Increased requirements (rapid growth, chronic hemolytic anemia,
dyserythropoietic anemias, malignant disease, hypermetabolic
state, cirrosis, post –BMT)
• Disorders in folic acid metabolism (congenital, acquired)
• Increased excretion
18. Clinical features of cobalamine and folate deficiency
• Insidious onset: pallor, lethargy, fatigability, anorexia, sore red
tongue and glossitis, diarrhea
• History: similarly affected sibling, maternal vitamin B12
deficiency or poor maternal diet
• Vitamin B12 deficiency: signs of neurodevelopmental delay,
apathy, weakness, irrability, athetoid movements, hypotonia,
peripheral neuropathy, spastic paresis
19. Diagnosis
• Red cell changes: Hgb usually reduced,
MCV increased to levels 110 – 140fl., MCHC normal,
• in blood smear many macrocytes and macro-ovalocytes, anisocytosis,
poikilocytosis, presence of Cabot rings, Howell-Jolly bodies, punctate
basophilia
• White blood cell count reduced to 1500 – 4000/mm3,
neutrophils show hypersegmentation (>5 lobes)
• Platelets count moderately reduced (50,000 – 180,000/mm3)
• Bone marrow: megaloblastic appearance
• Serum vitamin B12 values lowered (normal 200 – 800 pg/ml)
• Serum and red cell folate levels – wide variation in normal range;
less than 3 ng/ml -very low, 3-5 ng/ml –low, >5-6 ng/ml normal,
in red cell:74-640 ng/ml
• Schilling urinary excretion test – measurement of intrinsic factor
availability and absorption of vitamin B12
20. Treatment
Vitamin B12 deficiency
Prevention in cases of risk of vitamin B12 deficiency
Treatment 25 – 100µg vitamin B12
Folic acid deficiency
Correction of the foliate deficiency (100-200µg/day)
Treatment of the underlying causative disorder
Improvement of the diet to increase folate intake
22. • Isolated quantitative failure of one cell line, a single cytopenia ,
e.g. erythroid, myeloid, megakaryocytic
• A failure of all three cell lines (pancytopenia with hypoplastic or
aplastic bone marrow)
• A quantitative failure of the bone marrow, e.g. congenital
dyserythropoietic anemia
• The invasion of the bone marrow by non-neoplastic or neoplastic
condition
23. Diamond-Blackfan anemia
congenital pure red cell aplasia
The erythroid progenitor cell is intrinsically abnormal in
the following aspects:
• Decreased sensitivity to erythropoietin (EPO)
• Decreased sensitivity to EPO not corrected by IL-3 and
GM-CSF
caused by:
• Functional abnormalities in the erythropoietin
receptors
• Erythroid progenitors are abnormally sensitive to a
deprivation of erythropoietin, resulting in an
accelerated rate of apoptosis
24. Clinical features
• Anemia and pallor in first 3 months, 35 % is anemic at birth,
65% -identified by 6 months of age and 90% - by 1 year
• Platelets and white cell count – normal
• 25% have prenatal or postnatal growth failure and associated
congenital defects, including short stature, abnormalities of
thumbs, skeletal anormalities, congenital heart defects, webbed
neck, urinary tract abnormalities and craniofacial dysmorphism
• Chromosomal studies generally normal
• No hepatosplenomegaly
• Malignant potential (increased incidence of ALL, AML,
hepatocellular carcinoma)
25. Diagnosis
• Anemia and reticulocytopenia
• Bone marrow with virtual absence of normoblasts
Differential diagnosis
• Transient erythroblastopenia of childhood (TEC)
• Congenital hypoplastic anemia
26. Treatment
• Prednisone 2 mg/kg/day,
when the hemoglobin level reaches 10.0g/dl → dose reduction to
minimum necessary
• Packed red cell transfusion, leukocyte –depleted
• Bone marrow transplantation in steroid –resistant, transfusion-
dependent patients
27. Fanconi anemia
congenital aplastic anemia
• Rare inherited disorder, autosomal-recessive trait
• Pancytopenia: develops between 4 and 12 years of age
• It may present with isolated anemia or leukopenia
or anemia + thrombocytopenia
• Macrocytosis (high MCV), high HbF, high erythropoetin,
presence of i antigen – characteristic of stress erythropoiesis
• Diepoxybutane (DEB)-induced chromosomal breakages
• Hypocellularity and fatty replacement in bone marrow
• congenital anomalies: patchy brown pigmentation of the skin, short
stature, skeletal anomalies, hyperreflexia, hypogenitalism, microcephaly,
microphthalmia, strabismus, ptosis, nystagmus, abnormalities of the ears,
deafness, mental retardation, renal and cardiac anomalies
• Chromosomal breakages and structural abnormalities, chromatoid exchange
• High incidence of AML, carcinoma
28. Treatment:
Supportive:
• Packed red blood cells and platelets
(irradiated, leukocyte reduced)
• Chelation treatment in iron overload
• Androgen therapy
Active:
• Allogenic bone marrow transplantation
29. Acquired aplastic anemia
pathophysiology
• Immunologically mediated, tissue-specific, organ-destructive
mechanism
• Exposition to an antigen → cells and cytokines of the immune
system destroy stem cells in the marrow → pancytopenia
• Gamma –interferon plays a central role in the pathophysiology of
AA
• T cells from AA patients secrete gamma-IFN and TNF – potent
inhibitors of both early and late hematopoietic progenitor cells
• Cytotoxic T cells secrete also IL-2, which causes polyclonal
expansion of the T cells
31. Severity
• Severe AA: bone marrow cellularity <25%
Granulocyte count <500/mm3 platelet count <20,000/mm3
reticulocyte count <40,000/mm3
• Very severe AA: granulocyte count <200/mm3
32. Clinical findings:
- Anemia (pallor, easy fatigability, loss of appetite)
- Thrombocytopenia ( petechiae, easy bruising, severe nosebleeds)
- Leukopenia (increased susceptibility to infections and oral
ulcerations)
- Hyperplastic gingivitis
- No: hepatosplenomegaly and lymphadenopathy
33. Laboratory findings
• Anemia normocytic, normochromic
• Reticulocytopenia
• Leukopenia: granulocytopenia often < 1500/mm3
• Thrombocytopenia: often < 30,000/mm3
• Bone marrow: marked depression or absence hematopoietic cells
and replacement by fatty tissue
• Normal chromosomal analysis
34. Treatment
Severe AA:
• Allogeneic BMT
• In the absence of availability of an HLA-matched sibling marrow
donor - immunoablation ( ATG, cyclosporine, methylprednisolone,
growth factors- G-CSF)
37. Clinical features
suggesting a hemolytic process
• Ethnic factors: incidence of sickle gene factor in the black
population (8%), high incidence of thalassemia in people of
Mediterranean ancestry, high incidence of glucose-6-phosphate
dehydrogenase deficiency among Sephardic Jews
• Age factors: anemia and jaundice in an Rh+ infant born to a
mother Rh- or a group A or group B infant born to a group
0 mother
• History of anemia, jaundice, or gallstones in family
• Persistent or recurrent anemia associated with reticulocytosis
• Anemia unresponsive to hematinics
• Intermittent bouts or persistent indirect hyperbilirubinemia
• Splenomegaly
• Hemoglobinuria
• Presence of multiple gallstones
38. Corpuscular hemolytic anemias
Membrane defects
• Morphologic abnormalities: hereditary spherocytosis,
elliptocytosis, stomatocytosis, acanthocytosis
• Spectrin is responsible for maintaining red cell shape,
regulates the lateral mobility of integral membrane proteins
and provides structural support for the lipid bilayer
39. Hereditary spherocytosis
Genetics
• Autosomal-dominant inheritance (75%), non-family history –25%
• Most common in people of northern European heritage
• Incidence of 1 in 5000
Pathogenesis
• Membrane instability due to dysfunction or deficiency of a red cell
skeletal protein: ankyrin (75-90%) and/or spectrin (50%)
40. The sequelae are as follow:
• Sequestration of red cells in the spleen (due to erythrocyte
deformability)
• Depletion of membrane lipid
• Decrease of membrane surface area relative to volume, resulting in
a decrease in surface area-to-volume ratio
• Tendency to spherocytosis
• Influx and efflux of sodium increased; cell dehydratation
• Increased glycolysis
• Premature red cell destruction
41. Hematology
• Anemia mild to moderate;
in erythroblastopenic crisis Hb may drop to 2 – 3g/dl
• MCV usually decreased, MCHC raised
• Reticulocytosis
• Blood film – microspherocytes, hyperdense cells , polychromasia
• Coomb’s test negative
• Increased red cell osmotic fragility – spherocytes lyse in higher
concentrations of saline than normal red cells, occasionally only
demonstrated after incubation of blood sample at 37 C for 24 hours
• Autohemolysis at 24 and 48 hours increased, corrected by the addition of
glucose
• Reduced red cell survival
• Marrow- normoblastic hyperplasia, increased iron
• EMA-test
42. Biochemistry
• Raised bilirubin, mainly indirect reacting
• Obstructive jaundice with increased direct-reacting bilirubin;
may develop due to gallstones, a consequence of increased pigment
excretion
43. Clinical features
• Anemia and jaundice- severity depends on rate of hemolysis,
degree of compensation of anemia by reticulocytosis, and ability of
liver to conjugate and excrete indirect hyperbilirubinemia
• Splenomegaly
• Presents in newborn (50% of cases) with hyperbilirubinemia,
reticulocytosis, normoblastosis, spherocytosis, negative Coomb’s
test, and splenomegaly
• Presence before puberty in most patients
• Sometimes diagnosis made much later in life by chance
44. Complications
• Hemolytic crisis – with pronounced jaundice due to accelerated
hemolysis ( may be precipitated by infection)
• Erythroblastopenic crisis – dramatic fall in Hb level and
reticulocyte count, usually associated with parvovirus B19
infection
• Folate deficiency caused by increased red cell turnover, may lead
to superimposed megaloblastic anemia
• Gallstones in 50% of untreated patients, incidence increases with
age
• Rarely hemochromatosis
45. Treatment
• Folic acid supplement 1mg/day
• Leukocyte-depleted packed red cell transfusion for severe
erythroblastopenic crisis
• Splenectomy for moderate to severe cases
46. Hereditary elliptocytosis (HE)
• Is due to various defects in the skeletal proteins, spectrin and
protein 4.1 , it results increased membrane rigidity and in
decreased cellular deformability
• Autosomal-dominant mode of inheritance
• Elliptocytes varies from 50 to 90%
• Osmotic fragility normal or increased
• Treatment: transfusion, splenectomy, prophylactic folic acid
47. Another types of membrane defects
• Hereditary stomatocytosis
(the cells contain high Na and low K concentrations)
• Hereditary acanthocytosis
• Hereditary xerocytosis
48. Enzyme defects
• Pyruvate Kinase deficiency: defective red cell glycolysis
• Red cell rigid, deformed and metabolically and physically
vulnerable
• Autosomal –recessive inheritance
• Nonspherocytic hemolytic anemia
• Variable severity: moderate severe anemia
• Neonatal jaundice
• Splenomegaly
• Gallstones, hemosiderosis, bone changes
Treatment: folic acid supplementation, transfusions, splenectomy
49. Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase deficiency
• Sex-linked recessive mode of inheritance
• Disease fully expressed in hemizygous males and homozygous
females
• Most frequent among blacks and those of Mediterranean origin
• Associations : hemolysis may be produced by drugs, fava (broad)
bean, infections
50. Clinical features
Drug induced hemolysis :
-Analgetics and antipyretics
-Antimalarian agents
-Sulfonamides
-Nitrofurans
-Sulfones
Favism:
-acute life-threating hemolysis often leading to acute renal failure caused by
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Associated with mediterranean and Canton varieties
Neonatal jaundice
Chronic nonspherocytic anemia
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Avoid drugs deleterious in G6PD, splenectomy
51. Hemoglobin defects
→Thalassemias
• Alpha chains hemoglobinopathies:
Deletion of two genes –alpha Thalassemia minor
• Beta chain hemoglobinopathies (Hgb S, C,E, D)
Beta Thalassemia Major (impaired beta chain synthesis)
→Sickle Cell Disease : Hgb SS disease, Hgb S-C disease, Hgb S-beta
52. Sickle Cell Disease (SCD)
• Most common abnormal hemoglobin found in US (8% of the black
population)
• at birth the incidence is 1 in 625
Genetics:
• transmitted as an incomplete autosomal-dominant trait
• Homozygotes ( two abnormal genes) do not synthetize Hb A, red
cell contain 90-100% Hb S
• Heterozygotes (one abnormal gene) have red cell containing 20-
40% Hb S
53. Pathophysiology:
A single amino acid substitution: valine for glutaminic acid
( in the beta-polypeptide chain) →
• Different electrophoretic mobility
• HbS is less soluble than HbA
• Sickle cells are prematurely destroyed causing a hemolytic anemia
• Sickle cells result in increased blood viscosity and impaired blood
flow and initiate thrombi
54. Clinical features
• Anemia- moderate to severe normochromic,
normocytic
• Reticulocytosis
• Neutrophilia common
• Platelets often increased
• Blood smear: sickle cells, increased polychromasia,
nucleated red cells, and target cells
• Erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) – low
• Hemoglobin electrophoresis: HbS migrates slower than
HbA, giving the diagnostic SS pattern
55. Crises
• Vaso-oclusive or symptomatic crisis:
- hand – foot syndrome (dactylitis) – hand-foot swelling
- bone crises - osteonecrosis
- CNS crises -thrombosis/ bleeding
- pulmonary crises -dyspnea, severe hypoxemia
- priapism - hematuria,
• - intrahepatic vasoocclusive crisis
• Splenic sequestration crisis due to of pooling large amount of
blood in the spleen) – splenomegaly, abdominal pain of sudden
onset
• Erythroblastopenic crisis (cessation of red cell production)
• Hyperhemolytic crisis, unusual, in association with certain drugs
or acute infections
56. Organ dysfunction
• Central nervous system (acute infarction of the brain) –motor
disabilities, seizures, speech defects, deficit in IQ
• Cardiovascular system (cardiomegaly, myocardial dysfunction)
• Lungs (reduced PaO2, reduced saturation, increased pulmonary
shunting, acute chest syndrome)
• Kidneys (increased renal flow, increased GFR, enlargement of
kidneys, hypostenuria, proteinuria, nephrotic syndrome)
• Liver and biliary system (hepatomegaly, cholelithiasis)
• Bones (dactylisis, avascular necrosis)
57. • Eyes (retinopathy, angioid streaks, hyphema – blood in anterior
chamber))
• Ears ( sensorineural hearing loss)
• Adenotonsillar hypertrophy
• Skin (cutaneous ulcers of the legs)
• Genitourinary (priapism)
• Growth and development (by 2 –6 years of age the height and
weight delayed)
• Delayed sex maturation
• Functional hyposplenism (progressive fibrosis)
• Hemostatic changes (hypercoagulable state)
58. Diagnosis
• In utero: by PCR amplification of specific DNA sequences from
fetal fibroblasts (obtained by amniocentesis)
• In newborn: electrophoresis for separation of hemoglobins
Management
• Comprehensive care (prevention of complications)
• Prophylaxis of infections pneumococcal vacccine,
H. Influenzae vaccines, early diagnosis of infections
60. Thalassemias
Beta-thalassemia – impaired beta-chain production
Alpha-thalassemia – impaired alpha-chain production
Genetic defects:
• Two genes for Beta-globin synthesis (one on each chromosome 11)
B-thalassemias are due to point mutations in one or both genes
• Four genes for a- globin synthesis (two on each chromosome 16)
Most a-thalassemias are due to deletion of one or more a-genes
61. Hematology
• Hypochromic, microcytic anemia
• Reticulocytosis
• Leukopenia, thrombocytopenia
• Blood smear: target cells and nucleated cells, extreme anisocytosis,
contracted red cells, polychromasia, punctate basophilia, circulating
normoblasts
• HbF raised, HbA2 – increased
• Bone marrow: megaloblastic ( due to folate depletion), erythroid
hyperplasia
• Decreased osmotic fragility
• High serum ferritin
Biochemisty
• Raised bilirubin
• Evidence of liver dysfunction (late, as cirrhosis develops)
• Endocrine abnormalities (diabetes, hypogonadism)
62. Clinical features
• Failure to thrive in early childhood
• Anemia
• Jaundice, usually slight, gallstones
• Hepatosplenomegaly, hypersplenism
• Abnormal facies: prominence of malar eminence, frontal bossing,
depression of bridge of the nose, exposure of upper central teeth
• Skull radiographs showing hair-on-end appearance due to widening of
diploid spaces
• Fractures due to marrow expansion and abnormal bone structure
• Osteoporosis
• Growth retardation, primary amenorrhea, delayed puberty in males
• Leg ulcers
• Skin bronzing
• If untreated, 80% of patients die in the first decade of life
63. Complications
Develop as a result of:
- Chronic anemia
- Chronic transfusion → hemosiderosis and hemochromatosis
- Poor compliance with chelation therapy
• Endocrine disturbances: growth retardation, pituitary failure with
impaired gonadotropins, IDDM, adrenal insufficiency,
hypothyroidism
• Liver failure, cirrhosis
• cardiac failure due to iron myocardial iron overload
• Bony deformities due to extramedullary hematopoiesis
• Osteoporosis
64. Management
• Transfusion therapy (when Hb falls <7g/dl)
• hypertransfusion program used to maintain a pretransfusion Hb
between 10.5 – 11.0 g/dl - corrects the anemia and suppresses
ineffective erythropoiesis
• Chelation therapy to maintain serum ferritin close to 1000 ng/ml
• Splenectomy to reduce the transfusion requirements
• Bone marrow transplantation
• Gene therapy in future
• Increase HbF synthesis (trials): 5-Azacytidine, hydroxyurea,
cytosine arabinoside, busulfan, butyric acid analogues
65. Supportive therapy:
• Folic acid
• Hepatitis B vaccination
• Treatment for congestive heart failure
• Endocrine invention
• Cholecystectomy
• Genetic counseling
• Management of osteoporosis (calcitonin, biphosphonates)
66. Causes of death:
• Congestive heart failure
• Arrythmia
• Sepsis secondary to increased susceptibility to infection post
splenectomy
• Multiple organ failure due to hemochromatosis
67. Extracorpuscular hemolytic anemias
• Immune hemolytic anemia
• Warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia - responsible antibodies IgG class
• Cold autoimmune hemolytic anemia –IgM antibodies are cold agglutinins,
and cold hemagglutinin disease,
cold hemagglutinin disease usually occurs during Mycoplasma
pneumoniae infection
• Nonimmune hemolytic anemia
• Microangiopathic hemolytic anemia caused by renal, cardiac, liver
disease, infections.