Nikolas
Created page with "'''Macroangiopathic haemolytic anaemias''' are characterised by the intravascular haemolysis of RBCs due to mechanical forces in the ''large'' blood vessels, hence the name. This may cause haemolytic anaemia. The most important causes are severe aortic stenosis and prosthetic heart valves. In severe aortic stenosis the lumen of the aortic valve is so narrow that the blood that flows through it reaches very high velocities. This rapid, turbulent transvalvular..."
