Erythrocyte morphology in patients with sickle cell anemia and pulmonary emboli
- 19 February 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 203 (8) , 569-573
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.203.8.569
Abstract
During the examination of peripheral blood smears from 6 patients who had sickle cell anemia with superimposed pulmonary emboli (confirmed by autopsy in 3 patients), blister cells and irregularly contracted cells of thorn, helmet, and triangular shapes as well as spherical, crenated, burr, and fragmented cells were seen. The changes in the morphology of erythrocytes in association with luminal occlusion of multiple arteries are similar to those observed in patients with other types of microangiopathy.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Microangiopathic Haemolytic Anaemia: The Possible Role of Vascular Lesions in PathogenesisBritish Journal of Haematology, 1962
- THROMBOHEMOLYTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURAArchives of internal medicine (1960), 1954