Questions

1.Winy Kay and Evans Jay have been long time friends. They have decided to form a partnership but do not want to be governed by a partnership agreement. Explain to Winy Kay and Evans Jay the rights and duties of partners in a partnership with no partnership agreement.

2.What is the management plan in a patient with secondary polycythaemia

presenting with transient ischaemic attacks (TIA)?

3.Why do patients with polycythaemia vera have a tendency to bleed, even

though 50% of them have an elevated platelet count?

4.In hyposplenic patients, what precautions are necessary for patients who

intend to travel to Saudi Arabia for the Haj?

5.What is the mechanism of development of splenomegaly in chronic

leukaemia?

6.In idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), thrombocytes are mainly

destroyed in the spleen owing to an immune mechanism. Why, therefore,

is there no splenic enlargement as there is with other diseases?

7.Where exactly is the Traub's space? How exact is the percussion of the

Traub's space as a sign indicating the size of the spleen?

8.Can you please tell me the indications and complications of blood

transfusion.

9.Several times I have read the phrase 'white blood cells elevated with a

left shift'. I am wondering what 'left shift' or 'left deviation' stands for.

10.What is the clear definition of 'bleeding time' and 'clotting time'? And

what are the applied differences between them?