5 Assuming she married to a person with sickle trait, what was the likelihood for her...
Case Study 3 Clinical Hematology BMS 420 This 18 year-old African-American female was in for her first prenatal visit. She was 8 weeks pregnant. She had been in good health and gave no significant family history. The routine CBC was flagged and reflexed to manual smear differential. The medical laboratory scientist reported moderate increase of target cells, polychromasia, and rectangular crystals on her smear. Here below is part of her CBC data. WBC: 11.1 x 10'/microL RBC: 3.82 x 10...
This 18 year-old African-American female was in for her first prenatal visit. She was 8 weeks pregnant. She had been in good health and gave no significant family history. The routine CBC was flagged and reflexed to manual smear differential. The medical laboratory scientist reported moderate increase of target cells, polychromasia, and rectangular crystals on her smear. Here below is part of her CBC data. WBC: 11.1 x 10 3 / microL RBC: 3.82 x 10 6 / microL Hgb: 10.9...
2. What is the most likely diagnosis, considering the rectangular crystals? What is the underlying structural abnormality? This 18 year-old African-American female was in for her first prenatal visit. She was 8 weeks pregnant. She had been in good health and gave no significant family history. The routine CBC was flagged and reflexed to manual smear differential. The medical laboratory scientist reported moderate increase of target cells, polysbromasia, and rectangular crystals on her smear. Here below is part of her...
Anemias Case Study A 21 year old white female college student of Greek ethnicity visited her gynecologist in San Francisco. She appeared to be healthy and was 3 months pregnant. The physician ordered a prenatal screen to include a CBC and urinalysis. The following results were sent to the physician: WBC: 7,000/ul RBC: 5.06 x 106/ul Hb: 11.2 g/dl HCT: 33.6% MCV: 66.4 fl MCHC: 33 g/dl The differential revealed normal WBC population with a significant microcytosis, 2+ hypchromia, and...
A woman has a father with sickle-cell anemia, which is an autosomal recessive trait. She does not have symptoms of sickle-cell anemia. What is her genotype? (0.5 marks) b) She is about to start a family, and she knows that her partner’s mother has sickle-cell anemia, but he does not have the disease himself. What is the probability of them having a child with sickle-cell anemia? Demonstrate this using a Punnett square. (2.5 marks) c) If they have three children,...