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Abstract Approximately 100,000 individuals live with sickle cell disease (SCD) in the United States (Center for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2016). SCD is a genetic blood disorder (CDC, 2016) characterized by acute painful episodes. According to Nouraie & Gordeuk (2015) patients with SCD visit the emergency department 190,000 times annually and are admitted in the hospital 110,000 times per year. Indeed, due to advance medical treatment of patients with SCD most patients now live…

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 stiff , in return ,assuming a sickle…

Special delivery of toxic cell-free heme causes vascular damage in Sickle Cell Disease Scientists describe a novel mechanism responsible for blood vessel injury in Sickle Cell Disease (SCD): microparticles derived from sickle cells deliver heme to the vascular endothelial cells causing oxidative damage. Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is an inherited blood disorder caused by a single base mutation in the DNA of affected patients, producing abnormal hemoglobin molecules. In SCD, red blood cells…

Sickle cell disease is a genetic disorder affects the shape of red blood cells. When the shape of red blood cells is changed, it is not able to move through blood vessels nearly as efficiently as red blood cells can in non sickle-cell people. Since these red blood cells can’t move through vessels efficiently, clotting will occur. People with sickle cell disease also have shorter life spans than those who have normal red blood cells. I found sickle cell disease interesting due to it having a high…

Sickle cell anemia is a genetic blood disorder that causes normal red blood cells to form into an irregular shape, called sickled-cells. The sickle cell gene causes the body to produce abnormal hemoglobin. After a while, the hemoglobin will then cluster together anywhere in the body causing the blockage of blood flow through the blood vessels. This blockage deprives the tissues and blood of oxygen which can lead to many difficulties and problems. SCD becomes life-threatening when the damaged red…

testing in babies with the sickle cell disease, doctors should be the ones who should decide on testing algorithms by analyzing new ways to cure the disease such as gene therapy and stem cell treatments. Sickle cell is a genetic disease of the blood. It is passed down through mutated genes from each of the parents and both usually do not have the disease and are just carriers. An abnormal type of hemoglobin S, which misshapes the red blood cell, causes the disease. The sickle cell disease most…

Sickle-Cell Diseases Sickle – cell disease is a kind of disease that infects red blood cells. This disease is inherited disease in which the body is unable to produce normal hemoglobin (1).There are several names for this disease such as sickle cell anemia. This disease spreads in inbreeding because it is a genetic disease. This disease is called sickle cell because the red blood cells under a microscope take a curved or crescent shape like a sickle (tool for harvesting forage).The cells…

disease like sickle cell anemia. Sickle cell anemia is a chronic blood disorder in which a mutated form of hemoglobin causes the red blood cells to sickle. When the red blood cells sickle, they can cause clogging within small blood vessels. This can lead to severe pain, organ damage, and paralysis because the body does not get enough oxygen (Holtzchaw, Fred, Holtzclaw Theresa 108). Learning one’s genotype is important for the prevention of these diseases. As a carrier of the sickle trait, I…

Sickle cell crisis is an acute condition of sickle cell anemia. Sickle cell anemia is a genetic condition. Both parents must be carriers of the gene in order for a baby to be born with sickle cell anemia. In the United States, the gene predominantly affects black people of African decent. Sickle cell anemia is a disease where there is an inadequate number of healthy red blood cell throughout the body. A blood test can check for hemoglobin S — the defective form of hemoglobin that underlies…

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…