All Entries in the "Blood Disorders" Category
Remember These Hemophilia Symptoms
Hemophilia is basically a type of bleeding disorder where your body has trouble with maintaining a proper blood flow throughout your circulation. There are various hemophilia symptoms to look for when you think there is something wrong with your body, and you should remember all of these symptoms so you know what to look for [...]
What Is Anemia and How Do You Develop It?
It is essentially a decrease in the number of red blood cells in the blood. This can be because of these three reasons – blood loss, lack of red blood cell production, or high rates of red blood cell destruction. Based on the trigger in the body which makes the red blood cells decrease there [...]
What Are Sickle Cell Anemia Symptoms
This genetic disorder is rather like the classic anemia as far as sickle cell anemia symptoms are concerned. The child is thus born with the defective gene that causes this disease. It takes at least four months for the first symptoms of the disease to manifest. Even then as the infant is unable to complain [...]
Understanding Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria
PNH or paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria is a rare and acquired disease of the blood which is also called Marchiafava-Micheli syndrome. The potentially fatal disease is not inherited genetically but develops in the body over time. It can affect both males and females and is not particularly age specific. However it is very rare and is [...]
What Is Sickle Cell Anemia?
Sickle cell anemia is a genetic disease. As the name suggests it is a form of anemia which is caused due to a mutation gene which makes the red blood cells of the patient contract and look like sickles. The abnormal cells are not as flexible as the regular red blood cells. They get stuck [...]
6 Blood Clotting Disorders You Should Know About
Hemophilia Of all the blood clotting disorders hemophilia is the most common. Here the blood does not clot in the normal space of time but for much longer. The primary reason is the lack or low levels of blood clotting factor VIII or clotting factor IX. It is an inherited and genetic disorder but in [...]
Factor V Leiden Blood Disorder
Factor V Leiden blood disorder is a genetic hypercoagulability disorder which is named after the city Leiden, Netherlands where it was first recognized in 1994 by Professor R Bertina. In this factor 5 blood disorder the factor V protein which is required for blood to clot properly is abnormal and is called factor V Leiden. [...]
What Is Thalassemia?
Thalassemia is a group of blood disorders that are genetically inherited by the patient. The hemoglobin is that part of the red blood cell which carries oxygen to the different tissues of the body. For a patient who is suffering from any of the forms of this blood disorder the hemoglobin has an abnormal molecule [...]
ITP Blood Disorder – Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment
ITP blood disorder is the condition wherein the patient has an abnormally low blood platelet count or thrombocytopenia. The full form of the acronym is idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura or as immune thrombocytopenic purpura or simply immune thrombocytopenia. As it was first described by the German physician Paul Gottlieb Werlhof it was initially referred to as [...]
What Is Sickle Cell Disease?
Sickle cell disease is a genetic disease which is characterized by the presence of abnormally shaped red blood cells. It is an autosomal recessive blood disorder in which the flexibility of the red blood cells is decreased. Due to this mutation of the haemoglobin gene there can arise a number of complications. General studies of [...]
