Red blood cell abnormalities in cardiac valvular disease

AUTOR(ES)

Forshaw, J.

RESUMO

Nineteen patients with morphological abnormalities of the red blood cells are described, and these formed approximately 3% of the total cases of cardiac valvular disease. In two patients the abnormal blood film developed after the insertion of an aortic and mitral valve prosthesis respectively, but in another two patients the abnormal blood film was corrected by aortic valve surgery. Anisopoikilocytosis may have been associated with microangiopathic haemolytic anaemia in one patient, but in the others the cardiac valvular disease was severe and other mechanical factors were not present. The mitral valve was involved in 16 patients and the aortic valve in eight.

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