picked up oxygen from the lungs. Deoxygenated blood has had most of its oxygen removed and needs to return to the lungs for re-oxygenation. Oxygenated blood is bright red. Deoxygenated blood is dark red. Oxygenated blood cells have a relaxed shape whereas deoxygenated blood cells have a tense shape. 2. Carbon dioxide concentration decreases as blood nears the lungs, which in return causes and increase in pH . Increased pH causes increased affinity for oxygen which causes the hemoglobin to pick
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University Of Maryland Eastern Shore Sickle Cell Anemia Dayona Williams Developmental Psychology 0301 Evelyn Jones 25 November 2014 Abstract: The paper you are about to read will inform you about the disease Sickle cell Anemia. It will explain to you about what Sickle cell Anemia is and how you develop it. This paper will also tell you the symptoms and who can get it. While reading the information you will understand all about the disease and how it’s treated and can it be cured. Also
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Sickle Cell Anemia Dennis Martin Jersey College School of Nursing Pediatric Nursing NUR205 Ms. Fran Davis September 30, 2013 Abstract Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a multisystem disease, associated with episodes of acute illness and progressive organ damage, and is one of the most common severe monogenic disorders worldwide. Understand of the disease has gradually increased since the disease was first described with a characteristic sickle shaped erythrocytes by Herrick in 1910 (Herrick
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from iron deficiency anemia. Her diet is not varied, it does not include fresh vegetables or meats (mostly carbohydrates), and her fatigue and pale nature make it likely that she is not getting enough iron in her bloodstream to produce healthy blood cells which will transport oxygen and nutrients. Because there is insufficient iron in the bloodstream, hemoglobin cannot be formed, which limits proper blood physiology. Symptoms include pallor (reduction of oxygenated blood), weakness, and fatigue.
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Sickle cell Diseases are a group of hereditary blood disorders, which affects hemoglobin a molecule in charge of delivering oxygen through the body. Most of the disease cause by Sickle cell disease are due to a genetic change in hemoglobin. Worldwide proximally one in every 2500,000 babies are born with sickle cell disease. In the USA 20K to 200K are affected with sickle cell disease, the most affected population are Latin American and African Americans. The sickle cell gene is passed from generation
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Sickle cell anemia is a disease in which the body’s red blood cells become misshapen. The red blood cells, which are normally round with a small indentation in the middle, become hard and crescent-shaped. They can’t fit through the small blood vessels and get stuck in the capillaries and block the blood flow. Oxygenated blood cannot get to the tissues, and this causes severe pain and in some cases, death of the tissues. Prolonged oxygen deprivation can even cause death, depending on the tissue
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Abstract: Sickle cell anemia is an important world health problem that involves the genetic of our body where an an approximate of about 300,000 infants are born per year in the world, thereby posing it as an important factor for parenthood where it can easily be avoided. Acute, chronic, and acute-on-chronic complications contribute to end-organ damage and adversely affect the quality of life. (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed2017) This article describes this disease it's vaso-occlusive crisis that occur
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Sickle Cell 1. Sickle Cell disease are genetic disorders resulting from the presence of a mutated of a form of hemoglobin, and found in commonly in North America is homozygous disease, an autosomal recessive disorder first described by Herrick in 1910 and causes significant morbidity and mortality, particularly in African people and Mediterranean ancestry. 2. Approximately half the individuals with homozygous HbS disease experience vaso-occlusive crises. The frequency of crises is extremely
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University Abstract An Essay Discusing the ImpacT of Sickle Cells on an Individual Health & Illness across the Life Span Introduction The concept of health is purely abstract in form and therefore remains indefinable to a great extent. It may be referred to an aspect that is considered to be prima facie with regard to the fulfilment of all kinds of objectives of human life. Being healthy does not essentially refer to being disease free only, as the World Health Organiastion definition
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Elizabeth Gossan Inherited genetic diseases - discuss Lynne Hampson 1,684 30/08/2014 Inherited Genetic Diseases – discuss. DNA is a large and complex molecule made up of a sugar phosphate backbone which consists of deoxyribose sugar bonded with phosphate groups. Then branching off the sugar phosphate backbone are complimentary nitrogenous base pairs which are Adenine, Thymine, Guanine and Cytosine. Transcription happens in the nucleus, where the double helix ‘unzips’ allowing mRNA to
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