Knowledge Check • The Blood Project

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Isolated macrocytosis (no anemia)

Which cell types are affected by excessive alcohol use:

a

Red blood cells

b

Neutrophils

c

Lymphocytes

d

Platelets

True or false: thrombocytosis is more common that thrombocytopenia in heavy drinkers.

a

True

b

False

Which of the following changes occur in the peripheral blood of patients with alcohol abuse disorder:

a

Vacuolated red blood cells

Vacuolization occurs in erythroid precursor cells in the bone marrow.

b

Ring sideroblasts

These occur in erythroid precursor cells in the bone marrow.

c

Pappenheimer bodies

d

Oval macrocytes

More often ROUND macrocytes.

e

Stomatocytes

True of false: The peripheral blood of alcoholics frequently shows hypersegmented neutrophils.

a

True

b

False

What abnormality takes the longest to resolve/reverse once a patient stops drinking:

a

Red cell macrocytosis

b

Thrombocytopenia

c

Ring sideroblasts