Sample paper
Sickle Cell Anemia
- Subject
- Business & Management, Nursing & Healthcare
- Type
- Paper
- Citation style
- APA 7
- Length
- 7 pages
About this sample
These three slides are a presentation, not an essay, and they cover sickle cell anemia despite the HRM, Business, Marketing, and Management filing. They define the condition as an inherited disorder involving abnormal hemoglobin S, then outline its pathophysiology and history, including how oxygen deprivation deforms red blood cells.
- Sickle cell anemia definition
- Hemoglobin S
- Sickling and red blood cell deformation
- Crystallization, polymerization, and gelation
- Irreversible membrane damage
How it opens
Sickle cell anemia which is also referred to as SCD (sickle cell disease) is an inherited disorder that results in hemoglobin S (Hgb S or Hb S) production. Haemoglobin S is an abnormal type of hemoglobin (a variant of hemoglobin) (American Association for Clinical Chemistry, 2017).
The moment sickle cell molecules are deprived of oxygen; they undergo a process referred to as crystallization, polymerization, or gelation. The modification of the physical state of sickle hemoglobin deforms RBCs, and the result is a sickle shape (Desai & Shah, 2015).
Initially, the distortion of the shape of RBCs is reversible upon re-oxygenation to oxygen. Still, every stage of sickling destroys the membrane and the cells ultimately amass calcium, lose water/potassium, and are their shape is irreversibly changed.
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