What is Hemolytic Anemia?

Hemolytic Anemia. Peripheral blood smear shows microspherocytes (black arrows), polychromasia (white arrows), and normal looking red blood cells with central pallor (red arrows).Ibuprofen-induced hemolytic anemia. Barbaryan A, Iyinagoro C, Nwankwo N, Ali AM, Saba R, Kwatra SG, Hussain N, Uzoka CC, Prueksaritanond S, Mirrakhimov AE - Case reports in hematology (2013). Not Altered. CC.

Hemolytic anemia is bone marrow disorder in which its activity cannot compensate for the erythrocyte loss leading to anemia.

Examples of conditions that may cause hemolytic anemia include:

Hereditary spherocytosis
Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency
Hemolytic anemia due to red blood cell trauma
Immunohemolytic anemia
Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria
Sickle cell disease
Thalassemia syndromes

Hemolytic Anemia

Last updated on May 23, 2022