Case Study: Blood Disease

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Q Instructions: Please select a topic about Blood that has a personal interest and find a case study from a peer-reviewed research study from a medical source online or from the library database at Locum library. It is worth 20pts and is always due at 11:59PM Sunday. Please do not wait until the last minute to submit it in case you have computer / Wi-Fi issues. You will lose 5pts for each day the assignment is submitted late. This is an easy assignment and is considered a part of your participation in the course. 1-Page, single-spaced Title / Name / Topic Include a reference of the article in APA format at the bottom of your paper. (2pts) First paragraph should be a summary of the article (4pts) Second paragraph is a personal perspective of the article What do you think of the article? (2pts) Why did you select it? (2pts) What class content is evident in the case study? (5pts) What did you learn from the case study? (5pts)

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For this week’s topic, I have selected the blood disease: Sickle cell anemia. I have selected an article “Sickle cell disease history” which was published by Yolanda Smith. In this article, she mainly focused on the history of sickle cell disease (SCD) and the origin and how it is formed. It is mainly a red blood cell disorder which is inherited genetically from parent to the offspring. In 1910, Dr. James Herrick firstly gave a description of sickle cell disease by examining the blood film of the affected patient. He showed the shape of red blood cells, hemoglobin and also the feature of sickle cell anemia. From an younger patient Dr. Herrick was confirmed about the characteristics of the sickle cell disease and after that in 1911, from the blood sample of a 25 years old female, he understood and described the symptoms of the sickle cell anemia

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