Summary haematology investigations-data interpretation

Haematology Investigations

SC2 Department of Medicine
Data Interpretation

,Learning Outcomes

At the end of this session, students should be able to:

• Define anaemia and idenitfy anaemia from basic laboratory investigations
(FBC)
• Recognise the common clinical presentations of the various types of
anaemia; identifying the common signs and symptoms
• List and interpret investigations to diagnose and classify anaemia
• Form a logical differential diagnosis for anaemia
• Identify the major different types and possible underlying causes of anaemia
based on laboratory results

,Anaemia

• What is anaemia?
• How do you classify anaemia?

, Morphological Classification
• Hypochromic Microcytic Anaemia
– Reduced MCV
– Reduced MCH WHY is this important?
– Small cells of blood film


• Normochromic Normocytic Anaemia
– Normal MCV
– Normal MCH
– Normal size cells on blood film

• Macrocytic Anaemia
– Increased MCV Differential Diagnosis!
– Increased MCH
– Large cells of blood film