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The person has very few if any symptoms of sickle cell disease but carries the gene and can pass it on to their children. [56] Autosomal recessive inheritance means acquiring two changed genes from each parent. If both parents are carriers for the autosomal recessive gene, there is a 25% chance of their child having and expressing the disorder.
The sickle cell trait provides a survival advantage against malaria fatality over people with normal hemoglobin in regions where malaria is endemic. The trait is known to cause significantly fewer deaths due to malaria, especially when Plasmodium falciparum is the causative organism.
McGill is one of the nation’s oldest people with sickle cell disease, living decades past age 52, the life expectancy of someone with the disease, which has a disproportionate effect on Black ...
Proliferative sickle retinopathy is the most severe ocular complication of sickle cell disease. Even though PSCR begins in the first decade of life, the condition remains asymptomatic and unnoticed until visual symptoms occur due to vitreous hemorrhage or retinal detachment.
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The family of a Black sickle cell patient who died “naked and alone” in prison after a medical crisis have described their pain as an inquest found that neglect was a contributing factor ...
Hyperviscosity syndrome is a group of symptoms triggered by an increase in the viscosity of the blood.Symptoms of high blood viscosity include spontaneous bleeding from mucous membranes, visual disturbances due to retinopathy, and neurologic symptoms ranging from headache and vertigo to seizures and coma.
Sickle cell nephropathy is a type of kidney disease associated with sickle cell disease which causes kidney complications as a result of sickling of red blood cells in the small blood vessels. The hypertonic and relatively hypoxic environment of the renal medulla , coupled with the slower blood flow in the vasa recta , favors sickling of red ...