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What is A 67 year old woman with a prosthetic aortic valve develops progressive anemia. Examination of a peripheral blood smear reveales reticulocytsis and schistocytes. What is the appropriate diagnosis and explain in detail?
Macroangiopathic heamolytic anemia most commonly results from direat erythrocyte trauma due to an abnormal vascular surface (eg: prosthetic heart valve, synthetic vascular graft). Anemia is mild to moderate and is accompained by an appropriate reticalocyte response.
Blood smear examination reveals Fragmented red blood cells (Schistocytes) and polychromasia. Although microangiopathic heamolytic anemia results in morphologically similar red blood cells, it reflects changes in small.
Diagnosis: Macroangiopocthia heamolytic anemia.