hemolysis
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Key facts
- Medical condition (new).name
- Hemolysis
- Medical condition (new).synonym
- Haemolysis (alternative spelling), hematolysis, erythrolysis, or erythrocytolysis
- Medical condition (new).image
- HEMOLYSIS.jpg
- Medical condition (new).image_size
- 305
- Medical condition (new).specialty
- Pathology
- Medical condition (new).complications
- Kidney failure, kidney disease
- Medical condition (new).causes
- Osmosis
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Article
21 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Inside the body
- Parasitic hemolysis
- HELLP, pre-eclampsia, or eclampsia
- Hemolytic disease of the newborn
- Hemolytic anemia
- <span id="HemolyticCrisis"></span> Hemolytic crisis
- Toxic agent ingestion or poisoning
- Space hemolysis
- Intrinsic causes
- Extrinsic causes
- Intravascular hemolysis
- Extravascular hemolysis
- Outside the body
- From specimen collection
- {{anchor|Mechanical blood processing during surgery}}From mechanical blood processing during surgery
- {{anchor|In microbiology}}From bacteria culture
- Nomenclature
- Complications
- References
- External links
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Hemolysis or haemolysis (), also known by several other names, is the rupturing (lysis) of red blood cells (erythrocytes) and the release of their contents (cytoplasm) into surrounding fluid (e.g. blood plasma). Hemolysis may occur in vivo or in vitro.