Fun Quiz: Test Your Hematology Knowledge

#1. Which test is used to assess the extrinsic pathway of coagulation?

Clotting Time

Prothrombin Time

Bleeding Time

Ivy Method

Partial Thromboplastin Time

#2. Increased number of abnormally shaped red blood cells

Lymphocytosis

Anisocytosis

Polycythemia

Pancytopenia

Poikilocytosis

#3. Calculated volume percentage of red blood cells in the blood

Mean Corpuscular Volume

Mean Corpuscular Hemoglobin

Hemoglobin

Mean Corpuscular Hemoglobin Concentration

Hematocrit

#4. Which of the following cells produce antibodies?

Neutrophils

Eosinophils

Mast Cells

Monocytes

Lymphocytes

#5. If cold agglutinin is suspected to be causing erroneous results, then what is the most appropriate action to take before reporting the results?

Refrigerate the specimen for 15 minutes

Perform an Antibody Identification

Incubate the specimen at 37C for 15 minutes

Ultracentrifugation

Check for alloantibodies

#6. Erythropoietin is a growth factor affecting progenitors and is produced by what organ?

Liver

Pituitary Gland

Bone Marrow

Kidney

Spleen

#7. Which of the following is affected by Heparin?

Red Cell Indices due to cross reaction with EDTA as anticoagulant

Platelet Count

Extrinsic Pathway of Coagulation

Prothrombin Time

Intrinsic Pathway of Coagulation

#8. Neoplastic, clonal, stem cell disorders characterized by cytopenia and bone marrow dyspoiesis

Myelodysplastic syndrome

Lymphoproliferative neoplasms

Myeloproliferative neoplasms

Acute myelogenous leukemia

Leukemoid reactions

#9. This abnormal hemoglobin is caused by valine substitution for glutamic acid in the 6th position

Hemoglobin D

Hemoglobin C

Hemoglobin E

Hemoglobin S

#10. Factor XIII is also known as?

Thrombin

Stuart Prower Factor

Christmas Factor

Fibrinogen

Fibrin Stabilizing Factor

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