What is the basic difference between extravascular hemolysis vs intravascular hemolysis?
What is the basic difference between extravascular hemolysis vs 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. How can we tell hemolysis is intravascular? This is when RBCs lyse (“pop”) Read more…