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Atlas of Urine Microscopy Findings
 • Epithelial cells - Normal
 • Renal tubular cells - Acute
Atlas of Urine Microscopy ... fresh at time of microscopy ... - Diagnostic of ... contamination #Urine #Microscopy ... #Atlas #key #diagnosis
Causes of Hypokalemia - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Increased Loss 
 - Increased GI Loss
 - Increased Urinary
- Differential Diagnosis ... - Increased Cell ... imports K+ into cells ... #Differential #Diagnosis ... potassium #low #pathophysiology
Comparison of basophils and mast cells (in bone marrow).

#Basophils #MastCells #Pathology #Marrow #Smear #Microscopy #Comparison #Table
basophils and mast cells ... Marrow #Smear #Microscopy ... Table #Clinical #Diagnosis
Hypersensitivity Types and Their Mechanisms
Type I - lgE - Soluble antigen
 - Allergen-specific lgE antibodies bind
activation and cell ... natural killer cells ... - Red blood cell ... Classification #Pathophysiology ... #Allergy #Diagnosis
Pathologic Red Blood Cell (RBC) Morphologies and Associated Diseases

Acanthocyte (spur cell),  
Basophilic stippling, 
Bite cell,
Pathologic Red Blood Cell ... , Sickle cell, ... , Target cell ... Morphologies #Key #Atlas #Microscopy ... Pathology #Hematology #Diagnosis
A red blood cell (red arrow) is seen crossing the basement membrane (blue arrow) and losing
A red blood cell ... pathology #clinical #pathophysiology ... #microscopy
Lymphomas and Lymphoproliferative Disorders - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Hodgkin Lymphoma ~40% - Characteristic For Reed-Sternberg (RS) Cells
- Differential Diagnosis ... Reed-Sternberg (RS) Cells ... ~10% - B-Cell ... Classification #pathophysiology ... #Hematology #Diagnosis
Leishmaniasis Life Cycle
1) Sandfly takes a blood meal (injects promastigote stage into the skin)
Human Stages:
2) Promastigotes
mononuclear phagocytic cells ... and infect other cells ... of parasitized cell ... Leishmaniasis #LifeCycle #diagnosis ... #pathophysiology
Peripheral blood findings in microangiopathic hemolytic anemia.  DIC is a clinical and laboratory diagnosis, not
and laboratory diagnosis ... non-specific red cell ... polychromatophilic cells ... Pathology #Smear #Microscopy
Acute Rheumatic Fever: Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings

Delayed autoimmune reaction
-> Molecular mimicry
-> GAS antigen cross-reacts with host
->
B and CD-4+ T cells ... CRP Neuronal cell ... surface targeted -> Cell ... RheumaticFever #pathophysiology ... #diagnosis #signs