We also found the patient to have marked poikilocytosis with numerous schizocytes and mushroom-shaped erythrocytes (or pincer cells). A previously healthy 14-year-old male patient presented to a ...

HEMOLYTIC anemia, characterized by the presence of red cells bearing spur-like projections ("spur-cell anemia"), was described by Smith et al. 1 in a man with Laennec's cirrhosis. A factor that ...

ABSTRACT: Anemia is a blood abnormality that affects the quantity and quality of red blood cells in the human body. This sometimes banal sign spares no continent and no social stratum. This anomaly is ...

A 26-year-old black woman underwent evaluation in the emergency department after two weeks of worsening nausea, vomiting and fatigue. Her medical history included having had malaria at eight years of ...

[1] Service de médecine interne et Service d'hématologie, Département de Médecine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne [2] Service de médecine interne et Service d'hématologie, ...

Histopathology revealed a poor differentiated metastatic carcinoma with signet ring cells. Furthermore, the presence of schizocytes in the peripheral blood smear led to the diagnostic hypothesis of ...

ble surgical complications. Treatment with plasma exchange resolved the syndrome and the patient recov- ered completely. This is the first description of thrombotic microangiopathy early after a ...