Aplastic Anemia
Aplastic Anemia is a form of cancer that affects the bone marrow. Bone marrow is a soft tissue that is located on the inside of larger bones. This disease I rare and is not restricted for any gender. Aplastic Anemia occurs when the bone marrow stops producing enough red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets for the body. Platelets are another form of cell that do not contain a nucleues. They circulate in the blood and keep us from bleeding. When the marrow produces these cells, the cells are normal in the way they function, but the marrow does not produce enough of the cells in order for the body to function properly. The word Aplastic actually means “a failure in development”.This disease was first discouvered in 1888 by Dr. Paul Ehrilch. He discouvered this disease after he studied a case where a preganant women died of bone marrow failure. In 1904 this condition was classified as Aplastic Anemia. The causes of this disease are un known. Risk factors of this condition tthat can increase your chnace of Aplastic anemai include exposure to envoirnmental toxins, paint , oil and coal emmsiosns, industrial soilvents, certain viruses or medications, medications used to treat rheumatoid arthiritis,bone marrow diseases and preganancy. This disease can be inhearited or caused by envoirnmental substances. When Aplastic anemia is heriditary it is less comon. Heriditary Anemia is caused by the genes being passed down from parent to child. People who have heriditary anemia have other development or genetic abberants. Faconi is the name used when aplastic Anemia is herediatary. Children with abnormal chromosomes are likely to inherit this condition. One who has herediatary Aplastic Anemia will have abnormalities in...
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...mmune supresents have increased the number of survivors with Aplastic Anemia. Aplastic Anemia can improve when causing factors are complete. For example if a preganant women has Aplastic Anemia the anemia will improve once the pregnancy is complete. Same for chemotherapy or raditation. Anemia occurs in 1 in 2 people per year for every 1 million persons in the U.S. Around 300-600 new cases of Aplasdtic Anemia can occur every year. This disease can be more common in developing countires. In developing countires people are more exposped to toxins and chemicals which are causing factor of this condition. Once one completes all their treatments for Aplastic Anemia they could be in remission, and some may be able to control their disease. A relaps of Aplastic Anemia is very comon in patients. Some patients ,my have to live with this disease for the rest of their life.
majority of people making a full recovery. There are a number of different ways to treat the
...nt of patients with sickle cell anemia. However, the choice of interventions should be done carefully so as to realize the desired outcome otherwise it may not be successful. Key among the innervations listed here, is counseling. This may help the patients to have hope and this may aid in the quick recovery.
...0’s cancer mortality rates have dramatically decreased from 10% to over 80% for leukemia. Overall decline in mortality for cancer was nearly 54% from 1978 to 2008 (National Cancer Institute, 2011). Decrease in mortality rates are due to improvements in cancer treatments. Recent advances in treatments are due to aggressive cancer therapies and collaboration of findings from clinical trials. More than 80 percent of patients are expected to be long term cancer survivors (National Cancer Institute, 2011).
The public health issue the organization is working to address is to find a cure for blood cancer. At an estimated amount close to 1,012,533 people in the United States are have been diagnosed with leukemia, Hodgkin lymphoma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and myeloma. A majority of the diagnosed are living with or are in remission. According to LLS, every four minutes someone new is diagnosed with blood cancer and approximately every 10 minutes dies from blood cancer.
Sickle-cell anemia is a genetic disorder that makes your body produce red blood cells that are abnormal in shape. This disease is also widely known as hemoglobin SS disease. Unlike normal red blood cells, sickle cells are rigid and tenacious. Due to their shape and rigidness, they can block blood flow. In turn, this could cause organ damage to the body. Sickle cells are also fragile and die very easily due to the fact sickle cells have a lifespan of twenty days instead of the normal one hundred and twenty days for normal red blood cells.This causes the body to have a lower blood cell count, hence the name anemia in sickle cell anemia.
There are many causes of anemia in the body. Some factors include genetics and deficiencies in the diet. Ms. A claims that for the past 10 – 12 years menorrhagia and dysmenorrheal have been a problem for her. Menorrhagia is abnormal and heavy menstrual bleeding during menstruation (Mayoclinic, 2013). Menorrhagia can deplete iron levels in the blood and increase the risk of an individual to have iron deficiency anemia. This is the cause of Ms. A’s anemia. Moreover, Ms. A says that she constantly takes aspirin especially in the summer to prevent stiffness in the joints. Aspirin affects and hinders the production of red blood cells (Mayoclinic, 2013). From the description of anemia given above, the lack of red blood cells, leads to low levels of iron and therefore low levels of hemoglobin which in turn affects the transportation of oxygen and thereby causing shortness of breath. Ms. A’s initial complains of shortness of breath and fatigue is the reason why she went to see the physician.
Sickle cell anemia is a blood disorder that is inherited from both parents in which the body produces abnormally shaped red blood cells. In sickle cell anemia, the hemoglobin in red blood cells links together; resulting in the red blood cells to become rigid and a C-shaped. These deformed cells block blood and oxygen flow in blood vessels. Sickle cells deteriorate quicker than normal red blood cells, which results in anemia.
...agnosed at a later stage, most people die within two years of diagnosis and treatment.
The problem is that sickle cell anemia affects about 72,000 Americans in the United States. Sickle cell anemia is an inherited disease in which the body is unable to produce normal hemoglobin, an iron-containing protein. Abnormal hemoglobin can morph cells that can become lodged in narrow blood vessels, blocking oxygen from reaching organs and tissues. The effects of sickle cell anemia are bouts of extreme pain, infectious, fever, jaundice, stroke, slow growth, organ, and failure.
Let me share one of my outstanding client care experience while I was working as an RN in Italy in the hospitals medicine unit. A 17 year boy was admitted to the medicine unit in sickle cell anemia with complaint of vomiting and weakness.
Treatment of microcytic anemia are preventable, just by following a balanced diet and a healthy lifestyle. However, in case you are diagnosed with this health problem, there are several forms of treatment you can adopt to overcome it. The main objective of microcytic anemia treatment is to increase the production of red blood cells in the body. One of the first steps of elevating the production of red blood cells is by increasing your consumption of foods that are high in iron. Animal products and most varieties of meat like chicken, turkey, beef, pork, lamb and veal are some of the best sources of iron that you can consume. Meat organs like liver are also good for increasing iron levels. Seafood varieties like scallops, oysters, clams should
No matter who it happens to, any type of cancer is heart-breaking. However, one’s heart seems to crack a little bit deeper when you hear a child has been diagnosed. Several forms of cancer can arise during childhood. The most common is acute lymphoblastic/lymphocytic leukemia (ALL). In fact, it is so common between the ages 0-14, that people refer to it as childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (Kanwar, 2013). .
...ver problems. It may also make the person more likely to get infections. Blood transfusions may help control some symptoms. But this could lead to having too much iron, as it stated before. Too much iron could damage the heart, liver, and endocrine system.
There are several different types of anaemia with different symptoms and effects on the human body most of them have very similar impacts on health. Some people inherit the disorder whilst some grow into it. It can be diagnosed at the age of two or during the younger years in a humans life. The causes of this disorder begin with during pregnancy. Some of the common types of anaemia is:
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