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Sickle Cell Disease

Sickle Cell Disease. Project done by: Alexis Ferguson. About this disease:. Sickle Cell Disease is passed down through families. It is where the red blood cells that normally are shaped like a disk, take on a sickle or crescent shape.

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Sickle Cell Disease

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  1. Sickle Cell Disease Project done by: Alexis Ferguson

  2. About this disease: • Sickle Cell Disease is passed down through families. • It is where the red blood cells that normally are shaped like a disk, take on a sickle or crescent shape. • This disease causing sickle shaped blood cells to break apart, causing anemia. Anemia: condition marked by a deficiency of red blood cells or hemoglobin in the blood resulting in pallor and weariness

  3. The test for the disease: • There is a blood test that determines if you have Sickle Cell Disease. • To test the adults they take a blood sample from a vein in their arm. • To test the younger children they take a blood sample from either their finger or their heel.

  4. Cure? • There is no widely avalible cure. However there is treatments to help deal with this disease and control it. • Blood and marrow stem cell transplants may offer a cure for a small number of people who have this disease.

  5. Photo and Resources: http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/sickle-cell-anemia/basics/tests-diagnosis/con-20019348 https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/sca/treatment.html

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