Which blood cell type is typically stored at high levels yet not destroyed in the spleen?
a
Red blood cell
b
White blood cell
c
Platelet
True or false: a patient with hereditary spherocytosis and splenomegaly with anemia but normal white cell count and platelet count is said to have hypersplenism.
a
True
b
False
True or false: a patient with hereditary spherocytosis and splenomegaly with anemia who develops leukopenia and thrombocytopenia from the enlarged spleen is said to have hypersplenism.
a
True
b
False
True or false: in a patient with cirrhosis, the degree of cytopenias correlates with spleen size.
