Hemoglobin

Is your virtual child at risk for any nutritional deficiencies? What puts your child at risk? If your child is not at risk, what has protected your child? My child was born in a developed country, which decreases his risk of nutrimental deficiencies. In both developing and developed countries rates, rates will increase at the same pace at 6 months. My child was raised drinking breast milk and ate little solid food. My child received sufficient amounts of protein, which reduced his chance of…

The protein product of the myostatin gene inhibits skeletal muscle growth. People who suffer from skeletal muscle degenerative diseases show significant increases in myostatin. In contrast, knocking-out the gene results in significant increases in skeletal muscle mass (hypetrophy, which is characterized by an increase in muscle cell size not number, such as is seen in professional athletes) in experimental animals. Recently, a human child exhibiting strength far beyond that of other children of…

Codominance is between true breeding (both parents are homozygous and one is homozygous dominant, while the other is homozygous recessive), and the offspring is heterozygous. The phenotype of both parents are present in the offspring. An example of codominance is if a white flower (rr) and a red flower (RR) breed to produce an offspring (Rr), whose phenotype is red and white stripes, therefore showing that both parents’ phenotype is present. Incomplete dominance is also between true breeding,…

Mary Ann at 27 years of age decided to improve her lifestyle by being more active and eating healthy. After living a sedentary life she starts her training with a VO2 max at 38ml/kg/min, which is the rate of oxygen consumption that an person can utilize during intense exercise. After training for 6 months Mary Ann’s VO2 max increased to 52/ml/kg/min. I will be explaining how she was able to increase her oxygen consumption levels by increasing her cardiac output, and increasing her…

The respiratory system is responsible for the balance of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the body to meet metabolic demands. The way a person’s breathe can be affected is by emotions and/or changes in the internal environment. The breathing process is mainly controlled by the brainstem and peripheral system. The brainstem controls several important functions of the body like arousal, breathing, and blood pressure, among other functions. In the brainstem, the medullary respiratory center consists of…

A 36-year-old female presents to her physician with a 3-month history of joint pains. The pain is mostly in the joints of her wrists and hands up to the middle interphalangeal joints. The patient says that the pain is worse in the morning, but improves through the day as she uses her hands. On examination, the joints are red, swollen, and tender. Anticyclic citrullinated peptide antibodies are positive. The patient is started on low-dose methotrexate with good results. The patient is followed by…

deoxygenated blood from the capillary beds in a low pressure, high volume, valve controlled flow, back to the heart. From there, the heart pumps the deoxygenated blood through pulmonary artery to be taken to the lungs to replenish the oxygen in the hemoglobin. Overview of three coronary bypass grafts Grafts are common procedures performed to improve heart function. Veins or arteries are…

For my case study I diagnosed my patient with Volvulus of the small bowel. Volvulus is an obstruction caused by twisting of the intestine that can occur at any part of your gastrointestinal tract. Symptoms of Volvulus are: abdominal tenderness, dark/bloody stool, constipation, distended abdomen, pain in abdomen, and nausea/vomiting. Volvulus usually occours to infants usually during the first year of life. The patient is a 10 month old, female, this coresponds with the diagnosis of Volvulus as…

Introduction: 2% of the population over the age of 75 suffers from both dementia and visual impairment. Physicians often find it challenging to administer the available outpatient cognitive assessment tools, which require functional vision to diagnose dementia. Case: A 62-year-old African-American woman with history of hypertension, type-2 diabetes mellitus, peripheral neuropathy and legal blindness from Diabetic retinopathy presented for a routine evaluation. Patient was accompanied by her…

- In multiple myeloma, mild hemolytic anemia can be seen, whereas in SPB the hemoglobin levels are normal. Elevated creatinine and blood urea nitrogen are seen in multiple myeloma; the renal involvement isn’t present for SPB. High levels of monoclonal protein in serum and urine are indicative of multiple myeloma. The SPB typically…