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Sickle cell anemia is an autosomal recessive inherited disorder that affects red blood cells. The sickle cell gene inherited form both parents causes the production of structurally abnormal hemoglobin, clinical known as hemoglobin S, which cluster together, causing red blood cells to become rigid and develop a crescent shape. These sickled cells become trapped in small blood vessel and block them, reducing blood and oxygen flow in many parts of the body, and leading to tissue and organ damage.…

There are over a thousand genetic diseases around the world, and Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is one of those thousand. SCD affects seventy thousand to eighty thousand Americans. “Estimated one in five hundred African Americans and one in one thousand to one thousand four hundred Hispanic Americans have inherited SCD,” (Sickle Cell Disease.) Sickle Cell Disease is inherited by the parents, has symptoms, affects the body, and can be treated. “SCD is inherited in autosomal recessive,” (Single Gene…

and Aminata’s child will have sickle cell anemia is a 1 in 20 chance. By calculating the probability that Nelson is a heterozygous carrier of the HbS gene (.67), then the probability that Aminata is also a heterozygous carrier of the HbS gene (0.30), and finally the probability that two heterozygous carrier parents will produce heterozygous recessive offspring with sickle cell anemia (0.25), I calculated the probability of Nelson and Aminata having a child with sickle cell anemia. When all three…

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 disease…

Medical Surgical Nursing II: Sickle Cell Anemia-Case Study The following case study is about sickle cell anemia. This disease process is more common in those of African-American decent and simplified means that a patient’s blood cells are abnormally shaped which causes different manifestations as well as complications. There is no cure for sickle cell anemia/disease, but it is treatable. A potential complication is acute kidney injury (AKI), as mentioned in this case study as well. AKI is a…

Sickle Cell Anemia Anatomy and Physiology 9/1/2014 Victoria Nimtz Definitions and History: Sickle Cell Anemia is a genetically passed disease. Instead of having normal disc – like red blood cells, a person would end up producing semicircular (sickle) shaped blood cells. This turns into a huge problem because the semicircular shaped blood cells block the blood flow within the blood vessels, which happen to carry inside them a protein known as hemoglobin, which ends up carrying oxygen from…

Sickle Cell Anemia Sickle cell anemia is an inherited disorder that allows for some treatment, however the average life expectancy of a patient will Sickle cell anemia is only 30 years. An inherited gene causes the hemoglobin in the blood to become misshaped. Hemoglobin is the part of the red blood cells (RBC) that carries the oxygen to all of the body’s tissues and organs. This leads to inadequate amounts of oxygen to be carried on the hemoglobin, thus resulting in insufficient oxygenation for…

Genetic Disease: SCD Sickle cell disease is caused by the abnormal change in the haemoglobin gene that slows the flow of blood which causes lack of oxygen to the tissues. Yolanda Smith defines haemoglobin as, “an essential cellular component of the red blood cells that play the role of transporting oxygen in the blood to the bodily tissues where it is required”. ("News-Medical.net", 2015). There are two types of haemoglobin there is HbA that is found in normal red blood cells and HbS one that…

Interview: Sickle cell anemia (SCD) is a special form of anemia which is inherited from the parents to the sons, and in which the shape of red blood cells (RBCs) is changed, usually the red blood cells is shaped like round discs, but in sickle cell anemia the red blood cells are shaped like crescent moons, or sickles that leads to the not enough healthy red blood cells which become unable to carry adequate amount of oxygen to the different body organs. Normally the red blood cells are round and…

Sickle cell anemia is an inherited disease. It occurs due to the change of single nucleotide in the beta globin chain. In this disease, normal red blood cells get changed into to sickle shaped or disc shaped showing concave from the center. They may change their shape in the form of banana. Cause of disease: Sickle cell anemia is caused due to deficiency of iron in the body which results in change in the shape of red blood cells. How it occurs: Red blood cells are flexible due to which they…