Sickle+Cell+Anemia-Description

=**Description**= Sickle cell anemia is genetically inhereted. Anemia is when their aren't enough healthy red-blood cells to carry enough oxygen througout the body. In sickle cell anemia the red-blood cells become ridigd and sticky, they are shaped like a sickle ar a cresent moon. The sickle-shaped red-blood cells get stuck in small blood vessels and block bloodflow and oxygen. Their is no known cure for sickle cell anemia.

= = =**History of Disorder**= In 1910 sickle call anemia was first characterised when Dr. B Herrick wrote a report about a patient who suffered from a "strange disease" including asthmatic conditions and symptoms.

Copied from - @http://biology.kenyon.edu/slonc/gene-web/sickle_cell_project/History.html - from Mrs. Young



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Sickle cell anemia - MayoClinic.com

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