Sickle Cell Anaemia

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Sickle Cell Anaemia Summary

Sickle cell disorder is defined as a set of inherited conditions that target the erythrocytes in a human body. The disease is predominant at a young age such as for babies from 4 months. Specifically, sickle cell anemia is a condition where hemoglobin mutates to change the red blood cells (RBCs) leading to low oxygen levels within a human body. According to Boulet et al. (2013), the disease distorts the shape of the RBCs into a crescent; which is also...