Question

A 15-year-old girl is taking primaquine for a parasitic infection and notices her urine is a brownish color. A CBC shows mild anemia. The laboratorian performing the reticulocyte count notices numerous irregular shaped granules near the periphery of the RBC. These cellular inclusions are most likely:
A. Howell-Jolly bodies
B. basophilic stippling
C. Heinz bodies
D. Pappenheimer bodies

Answer 1

Answer:

Heinz bodies

Explanation:

Heinz bodies are also known as Heinz-Ehrlich bodies, they are inclusions which are made up of denatured hemoglobin within the red blood cells. They can be seen through supravital training but not by routine blood staining techniques. Heinz bodies is the destruction of the red blood cells, they can be formed due to oxidant damage done by medications to the haemoglobin.