Hemophilia an X-Linked Recessive Disorder causing bleeding and clotting disorders. Hemophilia a bloody disease Jessica Gandy Fortis College Largo‚ Florida Biology BIO 101: Ms. Tiffany Robinson‚ M.S. Abstract Hemophilia in short is a hereditary X-linked bleeding disorder shared only through recessive gene sharing and there are two types. Due to being X-linked‚ Hemophilia is more common in
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“Hemophilia is a rare bleeding disorder in which the blood doesn’t clot normally. Hemophilia usually is inherited. People born with hemophilia have little or no clotting factor (a protein needed for normal blood clotting).... These proteins work with platelets to help clot the blood. Platelets are small blood cell fragments that form in the bone marrow. When blood vessels are injured‚ clotting factors help platelets stick together to plug cuts and breaks on the vessels and stop bleeding. The two
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Hemophilia Hemophilia is the oldest recorded hereditary bleeding disorder. The disorder is hereditary and is passed down from parents to offspring. It usually only occurs in males but hemophilia is also carried in women. In industrialized nations hemophilia is not very dangerous because of the availability of treatment and therapies‚ but in less modern third world countries hemophilia is still very dangerous to those who have it. Hemophilia is a hereditary disorder and passed on from parents
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Hemophilia B Thesis Statement: To inform the audience about Hemophilia B or Factor IX deficiency. I. Introduction A. Most everyone can recall getting a cut or bumping into something right? Some of you may have even thought when looking at the cut it would never stop bleeding or wondering when the bruise would go away. Well‚ in some peoples’ lives the thought of when the injury will stop bleeding or when the bruise will go away is a daily reality. B. Today I am going to talk about what
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University of Santo Tomas High School España‚ Manila In partial fulfillment of the requirements in English 4 This library paper: HEMOPHILIA is submitted by ARROYO‚ JACQUES IVAN B. to MRS. MARIA TERESA C. RAMOS on FEBRUARY 17‚ 2012 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT It is a great opportunity for me to write about this subject entitled “Hemophilia”. When I was preparing this research paper‚ I have gone through various books‚ articles‚ and websites which I believe can help me to get acquainted
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Hemophilia is a rare disorder in which the blood does not clot normally‚ due to the lack of sufficient blood-clotting proteins (platelets and plasma) which are a huge factor to clotting blood so that it stops the bleeding. A person who is diagnosed with Hemophilia may bleed for a longer period of time after an injury than one would if their blood clotted normally. Small cuts usually are not much of a problem‚ but deep bleeding inside the body is. Especially in the knees‚ ankles and elbows. Internal
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Hemophilia is an inherited medical condition where the blood does not clot properly. Hemophiliacs - people with hemophilia‚ lack a protein called a clotting factor that works with platelets to stop bleeding at the site of an injury. People with hemophilia tend to bleed for longer periods of time after an injury and they are more susceptible to internal bleeding. Excessive bleeding can occur both externally and internally. Signs of excessive external bleeding include bleeding in the mouth from
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The genetic disorder which I have chosen as the subject of my report is hemophilia. There are two types of hemophilia‚ hemophilia-A and hemophilia-B. The clinical symptoms of both are very similar so for the purposes of this paper I have chosen to concentrate on hemophilia-A. Hemophilia-A is an X linked bleeding disorder resulting from a defect in a protein known as coagulation factor VIII. Since the disorder is X linked it is expressed mainly in males‚ who must have mothers who are carriers. Females
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Hemophilia A is a rare genetic disease that is characterized as a bleeding disorder. The disease‚ which presents itself in three different forms‚ mild‚ moderate‚ and severe‚ is dependent upon the production of the glycoprotein‚ coagulation factor viii. Although Hemophilia A produces a wide variety of serious symptoms‚ it is not necessarily fatal‚ and it is a direct result of a mutation that occurs on the gene F8 (4). Hemophilia A can be distinguished into three forms: mild‚ moderate‚ and severe.
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Background -Hemophilia A is an inherited disorder in which one of the proteins needed to form blood clots is missing or reduced. This lacking protein is known as blood clotting factor 8. Without F8‚ the blood cannot clot properly to stop bleeding and can result in excessive bleeding or disabilities. Hemophilia A -When blood is not able to clot and allow wounds to heal‚ this is a result of Hemophilia A Symptoms Include: -Prolonged bleeding from cuts -Excessive nose bleeds -Many large
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