Hematology

Have you ever known someone with cancer? No matter who the person is, it is hard for them to go through cancer. If they are tall or short, skinny or not, muscular or weak, it is still hard for them. Having to go through chemotherapy, to get rid of the cancer, and not knowing if it will actually get rid of the cancer. Losing their hair in the process of getting chemotherapy. There should be a cure for Leukemia and every other cancer. Imagine you are in a hospital all day hooked up to tubes…

Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia is cancer of the blood cells and the lymphatic system that are formed in the bone marrow. CLL usually affects older adults, especially those over age 60. People under age 45 rarely develop CLL. (https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/) In CLL, cancerous blood cells form and crowd out the healthy blood cells in the bone marrow. (http://www.cancer.gov/types/leukemia) The type of leukemia depends on the type of blood cell that has become cancerous. The CLL cells leave…

Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia Acute promyelocytic leukemia, a form of acute myeloid leukemia, is a bone marrow cancer with painful symptoms, that occurs in approximately 1 in 250,000 people of the US. . Normal bone marrow has a steady supply of hematopoietic stem cells that produce helpful cells for the body; red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets (“Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia Description”). These cells all have specific jobs that they perform and are all vital to the body’s…

Cancer is a topic that pops up a lot within our closely knit society. This disorder affects many lives and many are worried about how it will it affect theirs. Sadly, not many know the effects the different types can have, especially with acute myeloid leukemia. But through the process of cancer awareness projects, such as charity events or Pre-AP Biology essays, we can become better at detecting, ending, and preventing the the many subsets of the disorder known as cancer. Acute myeloid…

Hyperlipidemia is an abnormally high level of blood lipids and lipoproteins (LeMone, 2015, p. 867). There are two categories of hyperlipidemia: primary and secondary. Primary hyperlipidemia is due to a genetic defect. “There may be a defective synthesis of the apolipoproteins, a lack of lipoprotein receptors, defective receptors, or defects in the handling of cholesterol in the cell that are genetically determined” (Porth, 2011, p. 407). Secondary hyperlipidemia is initiated by other diseases…

Mononucleosis is a very interesting infectious disease. It has been called many things, including the kissing disease and its nickname mono. With getting mono, the victim can’t do sports for a few weeks, which can be really inconvenient. The virus mono spreads and causes many other problems for people in both the past and the present because of the symptoms and how it has to be treated. Mononucleosis is a viral disease. A viral disease is when the disease invades people’s normal cells and…

“The art of phlebotomy originated with bloodletting in 1400 B.C. and the modern clinical lab emerged in the 1960s – and it has not fundamentally evolved since then.” – Elizabeth Holmes. The reason for phlebotomy is to draw blood for lad tests. One test that is commonly used to determine ones overall health is and detect a range of disorders is a complete blood count (CBC) test. Some examples of disorders are anemia, infection and leukemia. The complete blood count (CBC) test measures multiple…

Arterial diameter, diffusion distance, and proportion of wrapping were manually measured for vessel pairs that were matched in both the light micrographs and micro-CT images in a blinded manner. Artery-vein pairs were identified, matched in both micro-CT and light microscopy images, and then labelled. Measurements were first made for the artery-vein pairs in the light micrographs. Then, measurements were made for the artery-vein pairs in the micro-CT images. A total of 25 vessel pairs were…

Intraoperative blood mistransfusion is not a term many anesthesia professionals think of when administering blood products in the operating room, but it becomes an acute reality to you, your anesthesia department, and the operating room staff when it happens to your patient. Over the years, hospitals and governing agencies have set forth checks, guidelines, and protocols that have made mistransfusion sound like something from historical literature due to such improvement in patient safety, but…

There is a variety of blood groups and antigens present in different human bodies, which depend on either polymorphism or inheritance. Blood grouping has a clinical significance, for example; we need blood grouping in cases of transfusion to avoid incompatibility, which often leads to blood clumping and agglutination then eventually death of patients, not only that but they are also important in pregnancies in cases of maternal fetal incompatibility. Each blood type has its own advantage like…