1 / 3

Sickle-Cell Anemia

Sickle-Cell Anemia. • Homozygous Dominant ( HbA , HbA ) normal hemoglobin • Homozygous Recessive ( HbS , HbS ) abnormal hemoglobin • Heterozygous ( Hb A, Hb S) normal and abnormal hemoglobin normal hemoglobin more abundant.

efia
Download Presentation

Sickle-Cell Anemia

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Sickle-Cell Anemia • Homozygous Dominant (HbA, HbA) • normal hemoglobin • Homozygous Recessive (HbS, HbS) • abnormal hemoglobin • Heterozygous (Hb A, Hb S) • normal and abnormal hemoglobin • normal hemoglobin more abundant Note: Hemoglobin is a protein in red blood cells carrying oxygen.

  2. Clinical Signs and Symptoms • Pain crises • Acute chest syndrome (a life-threatening pneumonia-like illness) • Cerebrovascular accidents • Splenic and renal dysfunction • Chronic anemia • Susceptibility to infections

  3. Malaria and Sickle-Cell Anemia Map

More Related