Acute Chest Syndrome And Sickle Cell Disease In The Pediatric Patient. Sickle Cell Disease: Is a generic disease that affects hemoglobin‚ oxygen transport in the body and patient quality of life. This disease is most common in African American‚ Hispanic‚ Greek and Arabs. Note: Sickle Cell is inherited from both parents. Sickle cell is a blood disease in wish the red blood cells that are responsible for carry oxygen from the lungs to other part of the body are behaving in an abnormal way because
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the result of environment and their expressions can be diminished or modified by warm and intelligent social interaction with parents and by relieving or not adding any stressors that would trigger the possibilities of those diseases‚ and sickle- cell anemia although genetic its risks of having it are diminished over generations where ancestors who might of lived in an area of the world where it was an important and spontaneous mutation required for survival against malaria. I would also emphasize
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this procedure measured by ability the of transplanted marrow to engraft and become capable of producing healthy blood cells. 1‚ Other possibility for stem cell transplantation‚ could be peripheral blood (allogeneic transplants)‚ or cord blood. Patient’s own stem cells can be used in what are called autologous transplant. In comparison between allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (PBSCT) to bone marrow transplantation (BMT)‚ PBSCT shows faster engraftment‚ more GVHD‚ a decrease in
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sign of Leukemia are rash ‚ pain and tiredness Treatment of Leukemia reatment of leukemia: 1. chemotherapy to kill leukemia cells using strong anti-cancer drugs; 2. interferon therapy to slow the reproduction of leukemia cells and promote the immune system’s anti-leukemia activity; 3. radiation therapy to kill cancer cells by exposure to high-energy radiation; 4. stem cell transplantation (SCT) to enable treatment with high doses of chemotherapy and radiation therapy; and 5. surgery to remove an
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Experiment 3: Stochastic Events • Consider the same population of butterflies is in the path of a hurricane. All survive‚ but 10 are blown to a new location. These 10 start a new population; their progeny will reflect the founder’s gene pool. This is known as the founder effect. Materials Beaker #1 Beaker #2 Beaker #3 Questions 1. What observations can you make regarding the gene pool and gene frequency of the founding individuals? 2. Do these results vary between the populations founded by
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the proper production of a functional protein that is vital for life. Recessive lethal alleles are mutations that are only lethal to homozygotic individuals with two copies of the mutated allele (Castle‚ 1910) . In humans cystic fibrosis and sickle cell anemia are two examples of recessive lethal alleles. A dominant lethal allele is a mutation that is lethal to any individual that has one or two copies of the allele. Huntington’s disease is an example of a dominant lethal allele‚ it is maintained
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BACKGROUND OF HEALTH FACILTY (LA GENERAL HOSPITAL) La General Hospital was established in the year 1963 and accredited to a District Hospital status in the year 2004. It is the only government Health Institution overseeing the work of both Private and Quasi government Hospitals in the Sub-Metro. The La Sub-Metropolitan District is the politician name given to the following sub-metropolitan districts. (La‚ Teshie). A new municipality called Ledzokuku-Krowor was carved out of the Kpeshie sub metro
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of the world where most people have two normal hemoglobin alleles. It’s been found that people with two abnormal hemoglobin alleles carry a disease called sickle cell anemia; this disease is known to be circumstantially fatal. In addition to this finding‚ there’s a direct correlation between the number of people in an area where the sickle cell trait is common and the amount of people with the one abnormal allele that proves to shield the infection of malaria. This single abnormal hemoglobin allele
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THE RED QUEEN A variety of theories have been proposed over the years to explain why sexual reproduction may be more advantageous than asexual reproduction‚ and‚ for that matter‚ why sexual reproduction even exists at all. For years everyone accepted the general proposition that sex is good for evolution because it creates genetic variety‚ which‚ in turn‚ is useful in adapting to constantly changing and challenging environments. But it may give organisms a very different kind of edge. By the
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ic Case 4: Brittany Long Guided Reflection Questions Opening Questions How did the simulated experience of Brittany Long’s case make you feel? Brittany Long’s case gave me the experience of providing care for a patient diagnosed with sickle cell. Initiallly‚ I was unsure on which pain medications to give being that she had orders for acetaminiophen‚ ibuprophen and morphine. I decided to stck with the morphine after retrying since her pain level was severe. Describe the actions you felt went well
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