Chapter 7: Coding Conditions of the Blood and Immunological Systems

Normal platelet count?

150,000-400,000

Normal RBC count?

4 to 6 million cells

Normal WBC count?

4,000 to 11,000 cells

What type of hemophilia is known as classic hemophilia?

A

Blood type

A system of classifying blood based on the antigens present on the surface of the individual's red blood cells.

Which of the following immunodeficiency disorders is a non familial defect in the body's antibodies?

Agammaglobulinemia with immunoglobulin-bearing B-lymphocytes

What occurs when antibodies merge with antigens, causing red blood cells to clump together?

Agglutination

A diagnosis of neutropenia may be from which of the following? An adverse reaction to chemotherapy, an adverse reaction to radiotherapy, a congenital condition, the malfunction of the hematopoiesis process

An adverse reaction to chemotherapy, a congenital condition, the malfunction of the hematopoiesis process

Rh Factor

An antigen located on the red blood cell that produces immunogenic responses in those individuals without it

What is produced by plasma cells in the blood to protect the body from pathogens and other invaders that may disrupt proper function?

Antibodies

Immunodeficiency disorders typically occur when which of the following lymphocytes do not work properly?

B and T

Which of the following creates heparin to prevent inappropriate blood clotting and create histamines, which are involved in allergic reactions?

Basophils

_______ create heparin, a blood thinning agent that prevents inappropriate blood clotting, and creates histamines, involved in allergic reactions.

Basophils

Antigens that are located on RBC's are categorized in which two ways?

Blood type and Rh factor

Sickle cell disease developed red blood cells that are _______ shaped.

C

Red Blood Cells (RBC)

Cells within the blood that contain hemoglobin responsible for carrying oxygen to tissues

White Blood Cells (WBC)

Cells within the blood that help to protect the body from pathogens.

Coagulation

Clotting; the change from a liquid into a thickened substance

hemolytic anemia code range

D55-D59

Sickle-cell thalassemia with acute chest syndrome. How would you code this?

D57.411

Aplastic and other anemias and other bone marrow failure syndromes code range

D60-D64

Coagulation defects, purpura, and other hemorrhagic conditions

D65-D69

Other disorders of blood and blood-forming organs

D70-D77

Intraoperative and postprocedural complications of the spleen

D78

Certain disorders involving the immune mechanism

D89-D89

Which of the following can cause damage to the spleen? Disease, congenital anomaly, Trauma, STD

Disease, congenital anomaly, trauma

Rh Positive

Does have the Rh Antigen

Rh Negative

Does not have the Rh anitgen

Blood

Fluid pumped throughout the body, carrying oxygen and nutrients to the cells and wastes away from the cells

What type of tumor results from an ulcerated infection?

Granuloma

Blood is composed of all of the following except? PLT's, RBC's, WBC's, and HCT

HCT

Typa AB Blood

Has both antigen A & B in their RBC

Type O Blood

Has neither antigen A nor B in their RBC

Type B Blood

Has only antigen B in their RBC

Blood is created in the red bone marrow during a series of steps called?

Hematopoiesis

Which type of anemia results from an insufficient number of healthy RBC due to abnormal or premature destruction?

Hemolytic anemia

What is a genetic mutation that establishes a deficiency laking a protein in the blood necessary in the clotting process?

Hemophilia

Blood not only transports oxygen but also controls ______ through _________.

Hemostasis; coagulation

Which system is considered the armed forces network that develops special forces, known as antibodies?

Immune System

Because Rh factor is __________, complications are a concern when an Rh-negative woman becomes pregnant with an Rh-positive fetus.

Inherited

What are the most common causes of anemia?

Lack of RBC production, high rates of RBC destruction, blood loss

Platelets (PLT)

Large cell fragments in the bone marrow that function in clotting

In _________-, the body is not producing the required number of leukocytes.

Leukopenia

Red bone marrow produces white blood cells through which process?

Leukopiesis

After delivering oxygen to the cells, the blood picks up carbon dioxide and carries it back to the _______ for expulsion from the body.

Lungs

Leukemia is the presence of ______ cells within the bone marrow that produces blood cells, causing a reduction in the production of RBC's, WBC's, and platelets.

Malignant

When a condition causes a malfunction in the blood system and/or the blood forming organs, it might be a _________.

Manifestation

What blood condition occurs when the patient's bone marrow produces an abnormally low number of white blood cells?

Neutropenia

Which of the following contains enzymes that work to destroy parts of bacterial pathogens that have been consumed by phagocytes?

Neutrophils

Antigens are _______ that sit on the surface of RBC.

Proteins

Blood is a type of connective tissue that consists of which of the following? RBC's,WBC's,LFT's,PLT's

RBC's, WBC's, PLT's

An individual with type A blood has only antigen A on their _______.

Red Blood Cells

Typically, immunodeficiency disorders occur when _____ do not work properly.

T or B Lymphocytes

Agglutination

The process of red blood cells combining together in a mass or lump.

What is known to have a low platelet count most often due to increased platelet destruction, decreases platelet production, or malfunctioning platelets?

Thrombocytopenia

_______ is a low platelet count most often due to increased platelet destruction, decreased platelet production, or malfunctioning platelets.

Thrombocytopenia

Which of the following are types of clotting disorders? Hemophilia, Thrombotic, Thrombocytopenia, Hemostatic.

Thrombotic, Hemostatic

An individual with B- blood can only receive blood from what type(s) of blood in a transfusion?

Type B- or type O-

Which blood type is known as the universal donor?

Type O

The genetic mutation causing white blood cells to malfunction, increasing the body's susceptibility to inflammatory diseases and other immunodeficiency disorders, is known as _____.

Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrom

What genetic mutation causes WBC's to malfunction, increasing the body's susceptibility to inflammatory disease and other immunodeficiency disorders?

Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrom

A(n) _________ is actually an immune system false alarm, responding to something as if it were a pathogen to harm the body, when, in reality, it's not.

allergy

Type A Blood

has only antigen A in their RBC

Antibody

immune responses to antigens

Antigen

substance that promotes the production of antibodies

Hemolysis

the destruction of red blood cells resulting in the release of hemoglobin into the bloodstream

Plasma

the fluid part of the blood

Hematopoiesis

the formation blood

Hemostasis

the interruption of bleeding

Hemoglobin

the part of the RBC that carries oxygen

Transfussion

the provision of one person's blood or plasma to another individual