The Importance of Donating Blood ATTENTION: I’d like to ask you to completely clear your mind for a moment. Now‚ imagine your father has just suffered a heart attack and must undergo open-heart surgery in order to repair the damage. Imagine your little nephew or niece was born with a heart defect and required daily transfusions of blood in order to have a chance at survival. Imagine your best friend has just been diagnosed with leukemia‚ a disease requiring regular transfusions of platelets. These
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Abstract It’s midsummer‚ 80 degrees outside‚ and I’m shivering. Day after day I feel exhausted‚ I have no appetite‚ and no matter how much sun I get I am always pale. I have a medical condition called Anemia. Anemia occurs when the bodies red blood cell count is below normal. A normal hemoglobin count for a female is 12.0grams/100ml and 13.5grams/100ml for a male. This can be hereditary but it can also occur in the body for a number of reasons such as massive blood loss‚ vitamin deficiency‚ and cell
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Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of inherited conditions that affect the red blood cells. People affected with sickle cell disease produce abnormally shaped red blood cells that causes health problems. Sickle cell disease is caused by a defective gene passed on from the parent to the child. Sickle cell disease is condition that is considered serious and lifelong. People of African descent are mainly affected with sickle cell disease in addition to ‚ Caribbean‚ Middle Eastern‚ Eastern Mediterranean
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Mary Emily Flores 4/18/2017 Dr.Sirhan Abdullah General Biology 1 Sickle cell anemia is an inherited disease in which there aren’t enough healthy red blood cells to carry oxygen throughout the body . Where the cell is deformed is in the bone marrow ‚a gene in the bone marrow causes the blood cell to come out in a sickle cell shape because the hemoglobin in the defected body is abnormal‚ after it gives up the oxygen‚ bet together causeing the red blood cells to become to a sickle like shape
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Leukemia is the tenth most prevalent cancer found in humans. The most common type of leukemia is acute myeloid leukemia. This type of leukemia begins in immature myeloid cells: white blood cells‚ red blood cells‚ or cells that make platelets known as megakaryocytes. Acute myelogenous leukemia is different from chronic myelogenous leukemia in that it spreads quicker and is much more deadly than the latter. Acute myeloid leukemia is characterized by the location of development‚ in stem cells‚ which
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OB PROJECT (WEEK 4) Definition: Spinal Bifida- congenital neural tube defect in which the vertebral spaces fail to close‚ allowing a herniation of the spinal contents into a sac. There are three types of spinal bifida: spinal bifida occulta‚ meningocele‚ and myelomeningocele. Cause: In spinal bifida‚ the vertebral spaces do not close‚ which allows herniation of the spinal contents into a sac. Risk factors include: • Genetic problems • Infection • Children born into lower socioeconomic families
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Human bloods have differences precisely to the presence or absence of certain protein molecules called antigens and antibodies. The antigens can be found on the surface of red blood cells and the antibodies are in the blood plasma. Individuals have different types and combination of these molecules. Blood group is like a trait which we inherit to our parents. The blood group you belong depends on what you have inherited from your parents. There are three types of antigens: A antigen‚ B antigen
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Name: ashley wible Exercise 11: Blood Analysis: Activity 2: Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate Lab Report Pre-lab Quiz Results You scored 33% by answering 1 out of 3 questions correctly. 1. The erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) Your answer : a. measures the settling of red blood cells (RBCs) in a sample of whole blood during one minute. Correct answer: c. is increased whenever fibrinogen and immunoglobulins cause the RBCs to clump together‚ stack up‚ and form a column. 2. The ESR cannot be
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Overview Cutaneous t-cell lymphoma (CTCL) is a type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. A rare disorder‚ it is characterized by excessive growth of white blood cells called T cells within the skin‚ which manifests as sometimes itchy red patches. Individuals with darker skin might notice lighter or darker patches. Early stages of the condition can be mistaken for other common skin afflictions like psoriasis and eczema‚ so tests are often needed to distinguish them. Diagnosing CTCL can be tricky‚ and multiple
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Aplastic anemia is a condition where bone marrow does not produce sufficient new cells to replenish blood cells.[1] The condition‚ per its name‚ involves both aplasia and anemia. Typically‚ anemia refers to low red blood cell counts‚ but aplastic anemia patients have lower counts of all three blood cell types: red blood cells‚ white blood cells‚ and platelets‚ termed pancytopenia. ------------------------------------------------- [edit]Signs and symptoms * Anemia with malaise‚ pallor and associated
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