Well, it’s hereditary elliptocytosis,
isn’t it? This one looks particularly extreme with a lot of very bizarre red
cells.
Clinically this one would be severe,
some not so bad. I always remember discovering a case of H.E. in an eighty year
old chap who had an infection after a prostatectomy. Morphologically loads of
elliptocytes, clinically not a problem… he’d lived eighty years before anyone
had any cause to put his blood under a microscope… and even then it wasn’t
actually because of his red cells.
Here’s an article on the
matter…
