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Exam questionKROK 2Medicine · 2014

Mother of a 10-month-old baby reports significant pallor, poor appetite, enlarged abdomen in the baby. As a neonate, the child underwent treatment in the in-patient hospital for jaundice and anemia. Objectively: the skin is pale and jaundiced, teeth are absent, abdomen is enlarged, spleen is palpable. Blood test results: Hb- 90 g/l, RBC- 3,0 × 1012/l, color index - 0,9, microspherocytosis, reticulocytosis up to 20%, serum bilirubin - 37 mmol/l, unconjugated bilirubin - 28 mmol/l. What type of anemia has occurred in the patient?

Answer options

  1. Hemolytic anemia
  2. Iron-deficiency anemia
  3. Hereditary elliptocytosis
  4. B12-deficiency anemia
  5. Protein-deficiency anemia
Correct answer

Hemolytic anemia

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