How do you know if its extravascular or intravascular hemolysis?
How do you know if its extravascular or intravascular hemolysis? Intravascular hemolysis occurs when erythrocytes are destroyed in the blood vessel itself, whereas extravascular hemolysis occurs in the hepatic and splenic macrophages within the reticuloendothelial system. What happens extravascular hemolysis? With extravascular hemolysis, the erythrocytes are degraded within macrophages (see image above), so hemoglobin is […]