A 60-year-old industrial worker presents with shortness of breath for the past week. Blood withdrawn shows thick brownish red Color. Diagnosis?
Ans. C. Meth-hemoglobinemia* Sickle cell anemia has a pediatric presentation.* Hemolytic anemia will cause pallor and not brown discoloration of blood.* In G6PD in event of intravascular hemolysis the hemoglobinuria will cause a black urine. Therefore, by exclusion the answer is meth-hemoglobinuria.
Sickle cell anemia
Hemolytic anemia
Meth-hemoglobinemia
G-6-P-deficiency
Blood