Please help me with this one NBME question!

[nycmedstudent]

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[agranulocytosis]

I think this woman is presenting with TTP or DIC and therefore will show schistocytes due to RBC damage from the thrombi formed from excessive platelet aggregation.

 

[nycmedstudent]

thanks. it was the microcytic anemia that really threw me off...doesn't did or ttp present with normocytic?