Bone marrow

name for this type of disease is myeloproliferative disease. This means your bone marrow produces too many red blood cells. Bone marrow is the spongy center of long bones where blood cells are produced. If you have PV, your bone marrow may also make too many white blood cells and clotting cells (platelets). Almost all people with PV have an abnormal gene (genetic mutation) that causes changes in the way the bone marrow makes blood cells. This gene is called JAK2. The gene is not passed down…

and beta globin. If the body doesn't make enough of these protein chains, red blood cells don't form properly and can't carry enough oxygen. 2. APLASTIC ANAEMIA: Aplastic anaemia is a blood disorder in which the body's bone marrow doesn't make enough new blood cells. Damage to the bone marrow's stem cells causes aplastic anaemia. In more than half of people who have aplastic anaemia, the cause of the disorder is unknown. 3.…

platelets is interrupted (Myelodysplastic Syndrome Treatment 2016). These syndromes are rare, fewer than 14,000 cases of myelodysplastic syndromes occur in the United States each year (Statistics about Myelodysplastic syndromes). Blood cells and bone marrow do not fully develop or become mature enough to function properly when a person has myelodysplastic syndromes. Blood cells not becoming mature can cause many problems. If the white blood cells, the blood cells that fight infection, do not…

Imagine stepping into the doctor’s office because your assumed “flu” symptoms weren’t subsiding and leaving after a professional in a white coat gives you life-changing news. You have leukemia. Your world, once fair and upright, seems to come crashing down. You are scared. You know leukemia is a horrible disease that affects millions but you’re not quite sure what it entails or the treatments available to you. Leukemia is a sad consequence of life that affects many but there are options…

Leukemia cells can generally replace the bone marrows normal blood making cells. Patients with CLL will not make enough RBC, WBC or platelets. 5 This can lead to anemia (shortage of RBC), Leukopenia (shortage of WBC), Neutropenia (shortage of neutrophils; this can lead to serious bacterial infections)…

infections. CAUSES This condition is commonly caused by damage to soft tissue inside of the bones (bone…

Bubble Boy Disease Popped Kaylynn A. Foulk, Cinema and Television Arts Major, California State University, Fullerton Abstract This research paper explores severe combined immunodeficiency disease based from the research provided by four different articles and a book. Two of the articles were provided by the professor, but the other two articles I have researched on my own. The research paper provides a brief description of severe combined immunodeficiency disease and how it affects the immune…

("How Many People”). One casualty of these disease is my grandma who passed away of AML in 2001. AML is a perfect example of how an abnormality in the DNA can have catastrophic results. Acute Myeloid Leukemia is a form of cancer in which bone marrow makes abnormal myeloblasts, red blood cells, and platelets. Myeloblasts are a type of white…

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia is not a hereditary disorder, but is instead acquired from the stem cells in bone marrow having genetic defects (Meenagan, Dowling, & Kelly, 2012). Although acute lymphoblastic leukemia is not hereditary, the genetic factors that increase the patient’s risks include being a Caucasian and of male gender (London et al., 2014). The other…

Leukemia is a cancer of the blood, the complex disease occurs when there is too many white blood cells present or cancer cells are in the bone marrow. Leukemia is a Greek word that is broken down into leuko which means white and haima meaning blood. Peter Cullen found incomprehensibly what was called “milky blood” early in 1811. In 1825, Alfred Velpeau discovered the symptoms of Leukemia and found pus in the blood of patients. During the 19th century, the disease was first named weisses blut…