prevail in finding treatments and they have been able to find new experimental treatments that can help reduce the pain of sickle cell anemia. These experimental treatments include gene therapy, nitric oxide, statins, and drugs to help boost fetal hemoglobin blood cell…
“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…
Kristina Sebastian Ms.Donatella Biology The Mysterious Disease of Patient X Sickle cell disease is a group of a red blood cell disorder that affects the hemoglobin typically inherited from one's person's parents or relative . The most common type would be sickle cell anemia ; cause by a shortage of red blood cells in the human body . Most people don't know if they have sickle cell disease, which you can get test for . Patient X had a sickle cell disease so he did not have an idea he had the…
Abstract The study is to show how sickle cell has influenced us today’s society. The association of hematology conclude that people of African American descent are at the highest risk for obtaining this disease. Continued by Hispanic Americans from central and south America, and people of Indian, Asian, and middle eastern descent. The goal is to show and inform about this deadly disease, and trigger people to get checked for sickle cell disease. This has been done by exanimating web pages such…
Past Medical & Surgical History, Pathophysiology of medical diagnoses (with APA citations) 1. Iron Deficiency Anemia: The most commonly occuring cause of anemia. Iron deficiency results in the lack of iron for hemoglobin synthesis within the body. This may be a result of low intake, diminished absorption, physiological increase in requirements, excessive iron loss, chronic renal failure, hemodyalisis, and idiopathic iron loss. (Copstead & Banasik, 2013) KG receives frequent blood transfusions to…
younger brother , that I so dearly love has sickle cell disease. “Sickle cell disease is caused by a mutation in the hemoglobin-Beta gene found on chromosome 11. Hemoglobin transports oxygen from the lungs to other parts of the body. Red blood cells with normal hemoglobin are smooth and round and glide through blood vessels. In people with sickle cell disease , abnormal hemoglobin molecules stick to one another and form long rod-like structures. These structures cause red blood cells become…
With blood smear analysis they were able to see that the mice studied showed the same effects expected to see in thalassemic patients. Red blood cell count, hemoglobin, hematocrit, red cell distribution had all decreased significantly were as reticulocytes, which are immature red blood cells without a nucleus in thalassemic mice when compared to the wild type. Using dual energy x-ray absorptiometry, they found that in the trabecular sites such as the femoral metaphysis, tibial metaphysis, and…
Iron is an important mineral because it is involved with the transport and storage of oxygen in hemoglobin. Iron deficiency is one of the most common causes of anemia. Anemia occurs when one has low amounts of hemoglobin. Iron is critical for hemoglobin formation. The majority of the iron in the body is located in the hemoglobin. Iron deficiency has many negative symptoms. Some symptoms are dizziness, shortness of breath, weakness, fatigue, headaches, and…
Porphyria is named from the ancient Greek word porphura, meaning purple. The Greeks borrowed the term from the Phoenicians, who extracted a purple pigment from purpura mollusks to dye the garments of their royal family. (Lane 2002). Porphyrias are so diverse due to the fact that they have symptoms that can be considered somewhat slight to extreme and some are considered a common Porphyria to a rare disorder and are classified into 8 different types and are put in 2 main headings, Acute Porphyria…
Sickle cell disease is a genetic condition that some people inherit from their parents, people with this disease have abnormal hemoglobin in their red blood cells. Sickle cells are C-shaped and they can get stuck in the walls of small blood vessels, which cause them to stick together and form clumps inside the blood vessels. These clumps can cause many severe health issues, for example, someone with this disease has a higher chance of a having a stroke. Normal red blood cells are like disc…