KROK 1 2018 – Question 102 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
A woman has come to the hospital with complaints of general weakness, dizziness, and dyspnea. Recently she has been taking levomycetin (chloramphenicol) for prevention of enteric infection. Blood test: erythrocytes - 1.9 · 10¹²/L, hemoglobin - 58 g/L, color index - 0.9, leukocytes - 2.2 G/L, reticulocytes - 0.3%. What type of anemia is it indicative of?
- A. Hemolytic
- B. Hypoplastic
- C. Iron-deficiency
- D. Metaplastic
- E. Aplastic
Hint
Consider what chloramphenicol does to the bone marrow, and what the very low reticulocyte count and low leukocyte count say about the marrow's response.
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