If you walk into any store these days, all you see are Halloween decorations,

unless it's Costco, which had the mountain May.

But that's besides the point.

Fall is nearly here, and with that come a host of fun holidays, of course the trick-or-treat season.

Many of us love the crisp cool mornings, the changing colors of the leaves,

and of course the element of something spooky in the air as Halloween is on the way.

And medicine is no less intertwined with Halloween as we've talked about previously in numbers of

podcasts, but there is one theme in all scary movies, and that's blood. That's right, when you talk about Dracula, he needs it to stay alive and many other things that go bump in the night use it as well. And so now we're going to start a new series, basically all about

blood. Now we're not going to necessarily be dealing with it in the sense of

spooky characters and things like I said that go bump in the night, but this new series is going to be all about

hematology and all the blood disgraceous inherited disorders and anemias and

coagulation problems to fill your heart's desire. I'm Dr. Niket Son Pal, your

friendly neighbor internist,

castrantroologist, and of course podcast host, and lover of fall more than the

Gilmore girls combined. Let's kick off that music and start the new series on,

it's all about the blood. Now our first disorder that we're going to be talking about this week is known as hereditary

spherositosis. It's actually very rare, but in fact it's the most common cause of hemelitic anemia

that has to do to a red cell membrane defect. So what's going on in this disorder and why are these red blood cells

hemilizing? Well, normal red blood cells or erythrocytes are bicon cave

and have good high plasticity

and they're able to get through the various vasculature

and so forth.

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