CDC‚ sickle cell disease is a hereditary disease where the red blood cells have an unusual shape that prevents them from moving easily through the blood vessels and satisfying their metabolic needs causing them to die faster. People with sickle cell disease often experience pain due to the sickle cell blocking the small blood vessels‚ anemia due to the low healthy blood cell count‚ and infections. Although it is impossible to obtain accurate information about everyone that has the sickle cell disease
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09/08/2012 Sickle Cell Disease Blood has been considered the essence of life for centuries‚ and our blood is a living tissue made up of liquid and solids. There are many diseases related to blood such as anemia which is the decrease in oxygen supply to tissue and causes hypoxia‚ thalassemia is the mutation in one or more globin gene of hemoglobin‚ etc. Therefore‚ one of blood disorders is the most common symptomatic hemoglobinopathy with the greatest prevalence in worldwide which is called sickle cell
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Sickle Cell Disease Physical-Adult • Eye problems. The retina‚ the "film" at the back of the eye that receives and processes visual images‚ can deteriorate when it does not get enough nourishment from circulating red blood cells. Damage to the retina can be serious enough to cause blindness. • Jaundice‚ or yellowing of the skin‚ eyes‚ and mouth. Yellowing of skin and eyes. These are signs of jaundice‚ resulting from rapid breakdown of red blood cells. • Delayed growth and puberty in children
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TREATMENT OPTIONS There is NO cure for sickle cell disease‚ although new stem cell research is promising. Bone marrow transplant is a potential cure‚ however finding a matched sibling donor is difficult. Therefore treatment is primarily focused on management of symptoms and prevention of pain episodes. Hydroxyurea (a chemotherapeutic medication) is the only recognized treatment option for the prevention of vaso-occlusive crisis in SCD. It is a prescribed drug for adult patients
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‘How could natural selection increase the number of children born with sickle-cell disease in certain regions when these individuals are unlikely to survive and produce offspring?’ Darwin’s theory proposes that 3 conditions are a requisite for natural selection to occur. They are a struggle for existence of the offspring as they are competing for limited resources‚ variation within species which gives some individuals advantage over others hence better chance of survival and lastly inheritance
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Genetics- Word Count: 214 Sickle cell disease is a genetic blood disorder that plagues millions of people all over the world‚ the highest concentration is found among people of Sub-Saharan African descent. Sickle cell disease is caused by a mutation in the HBB gene located on chromosome 11. Hemoglobin in red blood cells is how oxygen is delivered to cells throughout the body and is composed of four subunits‚ two subunits of alpha- globin and two of beta- globin. The HBB gene provides the instructions
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Sickle Cell is an inherited blood disorder that affects approximately 100‚000 people in the United States. Red blood cells contain hemoglobin which is a protein that carries oxygen through the blood. Normal red blood cells are flexible and round. This allows them to travel through the small blood vessels and deliver oxygen to all of the body. Sickle cell disease(SCD) causes these red blood cells to form into a crescent shape‚ like a sickle. The sickle-shaped red blood cells easily break apart‚ causing
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Sickle-Cell Disease Greatly affecting the body’s oxygen levels due to mutated red blood cells‚ sickle-cell disease‚ influences an individual’s childhood in multiple ways: cognitive‚ social‚ emotional‚ and physical development. Sickle-cell disease (SCD) refers to an inherited disorder where abnormal hemoglobin is present in one’s red blood cells. Hemoglobin is the protein in red blood cells responsible for carrying oxygen throughout the body. The deformed sickle hemoglobin in people with SCD can form
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Cell’s July 18‚ 2011 Sickle cell anemia is an inherited blood disease that means you are born with it and it lasts a lifetime. People with sickle cell anemia inherit two variant or sickle cell genes‚ one from each parent. In the United States‚ sickle cell anemia affects about 72‚000 people. About 2 million Americans carry the sickle cell trait but about 1 in 12 African Americans have the trait. The signs and symptoms of sickle cell anemia are different in each person. Some people
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SC disease‚ an autoimmune recessive condition‚ is an inherited abnormality of red blood cells. Affected children inherit two copies of an abnormal hemoglobin gene‚ one from each parent. For couples where both individuals carry one copy of the abnormal gene‚ described as having SC trait or being a carrier for SC disease‚ there is a 1 in 4 chance of future children being affected by the disease (?) From a biomedical perspective‚ a high potential for benefit from sharing research-generated SC disease
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