Anemia

blood disorder called the autoimmune hemolytic anemia. This disorder occurs when the body immune system malfunctions and makes antibodies that act against the cells. What could cause the body’s immune system to turn against its own red blood cells? Sometimes the cause is unknown, but at times the destruction occurs for no known reason within the autoimmune hemolytic anemia disorder. The disorder is also called idiopathic autoimmune hemolytic anemia since the exact cause of this disease cannot be…

Living With Sickle Cell Anemia Chasta D. Jones Text College Living With Sickle Cell Anemia Sickle cell anemia is a condition where there is not enough healthy red blood cells to carry enough oxygen within a persons body. The red blood cells become rigid, sticky, and shaped like crescent moons or sickles. The cells irregular shapes can get stuck in the blood vessels causing blockage of blood flow though the body. The sickle cells become weak and break apart and die. This leaves…

Sickle cell anemia is an inherited disease in which the red blood cells have a deformed shape, which reduces their effectiveness to transport oxygen to the different parts of the body. Sickle cell anemia is predominantly present in people whose ancestors come from Africa. It is also common in people with Mediterranean, Middle Eastern and Indian Ancestry. The clinical diagnosis for sickle cell anemia is usually only evident in the patients who are heterozygous for the Hemoglobin S allele. The…

Comprehensive Medical Report on Sickle Cell Anemia Where did sickle cell come from? Sickle cell disease is said to have originated in West Africa. Sickle Cell Anemia is a very serious disease. It is a genetic disorder, which is inherited, and is the result of mutated hemoglobin. When a person has sickle cell anemia, their red blood cell count is lower than that of a normal person with a healthy amount of red blood cells. When a person does not have enough healthy red blood cells in their body,…

doctors, the hardest part is sometimes not the years of medical school, or the vast amounts of debt, it 's taking these years of education, and explaining it simply to someone else. I could tell a woman that her next child may suffer from hemolytic anemia and she must have RhoGAM injection. However, it is highly unlikely that she would understand what I’m trying to convey by hemolytic let alone what a RhoGAM entails. Simply explaining to a ninety-year-old how to use the bed controls teaches us…

Introduction: Anemia is one of the most common diseases in the world. Major cause of anemia is iron deficiency. It is prevalent in most parts of the world. Not all anemias are iron deficiency anemias, but most of the anemias are iron deficiency anemia. It accounts for more than half of the cases of anemia worldwide. Anemia is defined as decrease in the number of red blood cells or decrease in level of hemoglobin. It causes major health problems in affected people. Fatigue, cognitive impairment…

removed. 3 Testing for anemia is one reason a physician may have a patient get a red blood cell count done. The first test used to diagnose anemia is a complete blood count or CBC. Anemia is a condition that develops when your blood doesn’t have enough healthy red blood cells or hemoglobin which is a main part of RBC and binds oxygen. Having abnormal RBC’s can cause your body not to get enough oxygen. A main symptom of anemia is fatigue which comes from other organs in…

Sickle cell anemia is a condition, in which there are not enough healthy red blood cells to carry oxygen throughout the body. Sickle cell anemia is an inherited form of anemia. According to Center for Distance Control (CDC) it is estimated that sickle cell anemia affects 90,000 to 100,000 Americans. Sickle cell anemia is an illness that has one primary cause, but a variety of symptoms and treatments. Today I will discuss the causes, the treatments, and how cell transport is an important…

Sickle Cell Anemia is an inherited blood disorder that mostly affects people of African ancestry, but it can also occur in other ethnic groups such as Middle East and Mediterranean descent (National Institute of Health). The disease affects the hemoglobin molecule in the red blood cells. Hemoglobin helps with carrying oxygen from the lungs and delivering it to different parts of the body. The mutation of this disease makes the cells become abnormal and irregular shaped. As a result, the abnormal…

Sickle Cell Anemia is a birth defect that is “a genetic blood disorder caused by the presence of an abnormal form of hemoglobin” according to MedicineNet.com. Sickle cell is common to people that have ancestry with Africans. Sickle cell affects about 100,000 Americans, one out of every 365 African American babies, and one out of every 16,300 hispanic babies. Older children and adults with sickle cell disease may experience a few complications, or have a pattern of ongoing problems that make…