2. Was most common in Africa.
Went unreported in Africa until the 1870s because the symptoms were
similar to other tropical diseases In Africa. Also because blood
wasnt usually examined.
Children born with sickle cell disease usually died while infant.
So they arent usually seen by physicians.
http://www.innvista.com/health/ailments/anemias/sickhist.htm
HISTORY
3. Sickle cell anemia is an inherited disease.
People who have disease inherit 2 copies of cell (one from each
parent)
Sickle cell gene causes body to make abnormal hemoglobin.
In sickle cell anemia, hemoglobin sticks together when it delivers
oxygen to bodys tissues.
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/Sca/SCA_Causes.html
How you get the disease?
4. Sickle Cell Anemia affects chromosome#11
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=gnd&part=anemi
asicklecell
WHAT CHROMOSOME DOES SICKLE CELL ANEMIA EFFECT?
Red blood cell, sickle cell
Red blood cell, normal
5. Signs and symptoms of sickle cell anemia vary.
Most common symptom of sickle cell anemia is fatigue
Other symptoms include. Shortness of breath, dizziness, headache,
coldness in hands and feet, pale skin, and chest pain.
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/Sca/SCA_SignsAndSymptoms.html
When does sickle cell anemia appear?
6. Can occur in any part of the body
what parts of the body does sickle cell anemia affect
http://kidshealth.org/parent/medical/heart/sickle_cell_anemia.html
7. There is no cure, but it can be treated
The treatments are meant to relieve pain, prevent infection, eye
damage, and strokes
Treatments include fluids and pain-killing medicine
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/Sca/SCA_Treatments.html
Current treatments
8. Sickle cell anemia causes damage to spleen, kidneys, and
liver
Also causes lung tissue damage
http://www.sicklecelldisease.org/about_scd/index.phtml
Related conditions
9. Currently being to determine how to turn off the defective
gene
http://www.ringsurf.ocm/online/1227-sickle_cell_anemia.html
Current research being performed
10. Sickle cell anemia makes blood cells a crescent shape
Blood cells contain mostly hemoglobin*H (an abnormal type of
hemoglobin)
There are different types of sickle cell disease
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