Other names: resizing erythrocytes, mikrocyty, makrocyty

Changing the size of red blood cells may indicate certain types of diseases. Resizing can be done in a way to enlarge or reduce them.

Reduced red blood cells are common in sideroblastických anemia. Are conditions in which the organism lacking iron – whether due to its inadequate intake or excessive loss.

Insufficient income is primarily recorded in the elderly, which are limited to the diet piece of bread with butter and drinking coffee.

Excessive loss often associated with chronic bleeding – lose the red blood cells, which in their molecules contain hemoglobin being iron and the protein transporter of iron. Chronic bleeding can be extremely difficult knowable – bleed may polyp in the colon, malignant tumor in the bladder and the like. Bleed visible tumor – benign and malignant, inflammatory, and many other things.

Enlarged blood cells and their precursors in the marrow is found mainly in vitamin B12 deficiency.First, insufficient intake (but this is rare in CR), autoimmune gastritis, intestinal anastomosis, infection of the colon, wide (for us also no possibility of migration of people with this disease).

Generally speaking, the person attending physician may, since it changes his doctor in his blood announces – as part of the diagnostic process, preventive and the like. Patient himself on this flag very difficult matter – perhaps biological microscope enthusiast like.