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Updated: May 7 2017

Mechanical Destruction

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  • A 56-year-old man who had a mitral valve replacement secondary to endocarditis presents with fatigue and pallor
Introduction
  • Extrinstic hemolytic anemia
  • Etiologies
    • DIC
    • TTP 
    • HUS
    • artificial heart valve 
Presentation
  • Symptoms
    • general presentation of anemia
Evaluation
  • Peripheral smear
    • schistocytes 
Treatment
  • Treat underlying disease
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