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1. How is leukemia classified? Chronic or acute
2. What is Virchow triad? Conditions for clot formation
3. What is atherosclerosis? Artery plaque buildup
4. What is the difference between thrombus and Thrombus is a clot, emboli is anything
emboli? that moves through vessels
5. What are the laboratory tests to evaluate DIC? PT, APTT, Fibrinogen, D-Dimer, Platelet
Count
6. What does shift-to-the-left phenomena indi- Presence of immature neutrophils in
cate? blood
7. What is the pathophysiology of polycythemia? Increased production of RBCs, WBCs,
and platelets
8. What are the clinical manifestations of multiple Bone marrow and skeleton damage
myeloma?
9. What is leukemia? Malignant disorder of blood and
blood-forming organs
10. What is Burkitt lymphoma? Soft-tissue mass with jaw/facial bone
involvement, enlarged lymph nodes,
abdominal masses, and ascites
11. What is the general pathophysiology of essen- Overproduction of platelets
tial thrombocythemia?
12. What is the general pathophysiology of he- Excess iron absorption and storage in
mochromatosis? organs
13. What is leukemia?
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