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Haemolytic anaemia The normal red cell lifespan of 120 days may be shortened by a variety of abnormalities. The bone marrow may increase its output of red cells six- to eight- fold by increasing the proportion of red cells produced, expanding the volume of active marrow and releasing reticulocytes prematurely. If the rate of destruction exceeds this increased production rate, then anaemia will develop

Red cell destruction overloads pathways for haemoglobin breakdown, causing a modest rise in unconjugated bilirubin in the blood and mild jaundice. Increased reabsorption of urobilinogen from the gut results in an increase in urinary urobilinogen.red cell destruction releases LDH into the serum.

The bone marrow compensation results in a reticulocytosis, and nucleated red cell precursors may also appear in the blood. Activation of the bone marrow can result in a neutrophilia and immature granulocytes appearing in the blood to cause a leuco- erythroblastic blood film. The appearances of the red cells may give an indication of the likely cause of the haemolysis

Spherocytes are small, dark red cells which suggest autoimmune haemolysis or hereditary spherocytosis. Sickle cells suggest haemoglobinopathy. Red cell fragments indicate microangiopathic haemolysis. The compensatory erythroid hyperplasia may give rise to folate deficiency, when the blood findings will be complicated by the presence of megaloblastosis. Measurement of red cell folate is unreliable in the presence of haemolysis and serum folate will be elevated

Intravascular haemolysis When rapid red cell destruction occurs, free haemoglobin is released into the plasma. Free haemoglobin is toxic to cells and binding proteins have evolved to minimise this risk. Haptoglobin is an α2-globulin produced by the liver which binds free haemoglobin, resulting in a fall in levels of haptoglobin. Once haptoglobins are saturated, free haemoglobin is oxidised to form methaemoglobin which binds to albumin, in turn forming methaemalbumin which can be detected spectrophotometrically in the Schumm's test.

Methaemoglobin is degraded and any free haem is bound to a second binding protein termed haemopexin. If all the protective mechanisms are overloaded, free haemoglobin may appear in the urine. When fulminant, this gives rise to black urine, as in severe falciparum malaria infection.In smaller amounts, renal tubular cells absorb the haemoglobin, degrade it and store the iron as haemosiderin

When the tubular cells are subsequently sloughed into the urine, they give rise to haemosiderinuria, which is always indicative of intravascular haemolysis

Extravascular haemolysis. Physiological red cell destruction occurs in the fixed reticulo- endothelial cells in the liver or spleen, so avoiding free haemoglobin in the plasma. In most haemolytic states, haemolysis is predominantly extravascular. To confirm the haemolysis, patients' red cells can be labelled with 51Chromium. When re-injected, they can be used to determine red cell survival; when combined with body surface radioactivity counting this test may indicate whether the liver or the spleen is the main source of red cell destruction. However, this is seldom performed in clinical practice.

Causes of haemolytic anaemia These can be classified as congenital or acquired. Inherited red cell abnormalities resulting in chronic haemolytic anaemia may arise from pathologies of the red cell membrane (hereditary spherocytosis or elliptocytosis), of the haemoglobin (haemoglobinopathies) or of protective enzymes which prevent cellular oxidative damage, such as glucose-6- phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD). Acquired causes include auto- and allo- antibody-mediated destruction of red blood cells and other mechanical, toxic and infective causes, as detailed below

Red cell membrane defects The structure of the red cell membrane.The basic structure is a cytoskeleton 'stapled' on to the lipid bilayer by special protein complexes. This structure ensures great deformability and elasticity; the red cell diameter is 8 μm but the narrowest capillaries in the circulation are in the spleen, measuring just 2 μm in diameter. When the normal red cell structure is disturbed, usually by a quantitative or functional deficiency of one or more proteins in the cytoskeleton, cells lose their elasticity

Each time such cells pass through the spleen, they lose membrane relative to their cell volume. This results in an increase in mean cell haemoglobin concentration (MCHC), abnormal cell shape) and reduced red cell survival due to extravascular haemolysis.

Hereditary spherocytosis This is usually inherited as an autosomal dominant condition, although 25% of cases have no family history and represent new mutations. The incidence is approximately 1:5000 in developed countries but this may be an underestimate, since the disease may present de novo in patients aged over 65 years and is often discovered as a chance finding on a blood count.

The most common abnormalities are deficiencies of beta spectrin or ankyrin The severity of spontaneous haemolysis varies. Most cases are associated with an asymptomatic compensated chronic haemolytic state with spherocytes present on the blood film, a reticulocytosis and mild hyperbilirubinaemia. Pigment gallstones are present in up to 50% of patients and may cause symptomatic cholecystitis.

Occasional cases are associated with more severe haemolysis; these may be due to coincidental polymorphisms in alpha spectrin or co-inheritance of a second defect involving a different protein. The clinical course may be complicated by crises:

A haemolytic crisis occurs when the severity of haemolysis increases; this is rare, and usually associated with infection. A megaloblastic crisis follows the development of folate deficiency; this may occur as a first presentation of the disease in pregnancy. An aplastic crisis occurs in association with erythrovirus infection). Erythrovirus causes a common exanthem in children, but if individuals with chronic haemolysis become infected, the virus directly invades red cell precursors and temporarily switches off red cell production. Patients present with severe anaemia and a low reticulocyte count

Investigations The patient and other family members should be screened for features of compensated haemolysis). This may be all that is required to confirm the diagnosis. Haemoglobin levels are variable, depending on the degree of compensation. The blood film will show spherocytes but the direct Coombs test.is negative, excluding immune haemolysis. An osmotic fragility test may show increased sensitivity to lysis in hypotonic saline solutions but is limited by lack of sensitivity and specificity. More specific flow cytometric tests, detecting binding of eosin-5-maleimide to red cells, are recommended in borderline cases.

Management: Folic acid prophylaxis, 5 mg once weekly, should be given for life. Consideration may be given to splenectomy, which improves but does not normalise red cell survival. Potential indications include moderate to severe haemolysis with complications (anaemia and gallstones), although splenectomy should be delayed until after 6 years of age in view of the risk of sepsis. Guidelines for the management of patients after splenectomy are presented in.

Management of the splenectomised patient Vaccinate with pneumococcal, Haemophilus influenzae type B, meningococcal group C and influenza vaccines at least 2-3 weeks before elective splenectomy. Vaccination should be given after emergency surgery, but may be less effective Pneumococcal re-immunisation should be given at least 5- yearly and influenza annually. Vaccination status must be documented Life-long prophylactic penicillin V 500 mg 12-hourly is recommended. In penicillin-allergic patients, consider erythromycin A card or bracelet should be carried by splenectomised patients to alert health professionals to the risk of overwhelming sepsis In septicaemia, splenectomised patients should be resuscitated and given intravenous antibiotics to cover pneumococcus, Haemophilus and meningococcus The risk of malaria is increased Animal bites should be promptly treated with local disinfection and antibiotics, to prevent serious soft tissue infection and septicaemia

Acute, severe haemolytic crises require transfusion support, but blood must be cross- matched carefully and transfused slowly as haemolytic transfusion reactions may occur

Red cell enzymopathies The mature red cell must produce energy via ATP to maintain a normal internal environment and cell volume whilst protecting itself from the oxidative stress presented by oxygen carriage. Anaerobic glycolysis via the Embden- Meyerhof pathway generates ATP, and the hexose monophosphate shunt produces NADPH and glutathione to protect against oxidative stress. The impact of functional or quantitative defects in the enzymes in these pathways depends upon the importance of the steps affected and the presence of alternative pathways. In general, defects in the hexose monophosphate shunt pathway result in periodic haemolysis induced by oxidative stress, whilst those in the Embden-Meyerhof pathway result in shortened red cell survival and chronic haemolysis

Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency This enzyme is pivotal in the hexose monophosphate shunt pathway. Deficiencies result in the most common human enzymopathy, affecting 10% of the world's population, with a geographical distribution which parallels the malaria belt because heterozygotes are protected from malarial parasitisation. The enzyme is a heteromeric structure made of catalytic subunits which are encoded by a gene on the X chromosome. The deficiency therefore affects males and rare homozygotic females (p. 50), but it is carried by females. Carrier heterozygous females are usually only affected in the neonatal period or in the presence of extreme lyonisation, producing selective inactivation of one of the X chromosomes

Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiencyClinical features Acute drug-induced haemolysis to –Analgesics: aspirin, phenacetin –Antimalarials: primaquine, quinine, chloroquine, pyrimethamine –Antibiotics: sulphonamides, nitrofurantoin, ciprofloxacin –Miscellaneous: quinidine, probenecid, vitamin K, dapsone Chronic compensated haemolysis Infection or acute illness Neonatal jaundice: may be a feature of the B- enzyme Favism, i.e. acute haemolysis after ingestion of the broad bean Vicia faba

Laboratory features Non-spherocytic intravascular haemolysis during an attackThe blood film will show: Bite cells (red cells with a 'bite' of membrane missing) Blister cells (red cells with surface blistering of the membrane) Irregularly shaped small cells Polychromasia reflecting the reticulocytosis Denatured haemoglobin visible as Heinz bodies within the red cell cytoplasm, if stained with a supravital stain such as methyl violet

G6PD level Can be indirectly assessed by screening methods which usually depend upon the decreased ability to reduce dyes Direct assessment of G6PD is made in those with low screening values Care must be taken close to an acute haemolytic episode because reticulocytes may have higher enzyme levels and give rise to a false normal result

There are over 400 subtypes of G6PD described. The most common types associated with normal activity are the B+ enzyme present in most Caucasians and 70% of Afro- Caribbeans, and the A+ variant present in 20% of Afro-Caribbeans. The two common variants associated with reduced activity are the A- variety in approximately 10% of Afro- Caribbeans, and the Mediterranean or B- variety in Caucasians. In East and West Africa, up to 20% of males and 4% of females (homozygotes) are affected and have enzyme levels of approximately 15% of normal. The deficiency in Caucasian and Oriental populations is more severe, with enzyme levels as low as 1%.