Sickle Cell Anemia
This animation explains how a mutation in the hemoglobin gene leads to sickle cell anemia, how sickle cell anemia affects patients, and how sickle cell anemia is treated. Learn more about Sickle Cell Anemia terminology.
Topics
- ALXCollab
- Acute chest syndrome
- Adult hemoglobin
- Amino acid change
- Amino acid substitution
- Anemia
- Autosomal recessive
- Blood
- Blood cell
- Blood disorder
- Blood transfusion
- Bone marrow transplant
- Doppler ultrasound
- Fetal hemoglobin
- Gene therapy
- Genetic counseling
- Genetic disorder
- HbA
- HbF
- HbS
- Hematopoietic
- Hematopoietic stem cell
- Hemoglobin
- Hemolysis
- Herrick
- Hydroxyurea
- Ischemia
- James Herrick
- Linus Pauling
- Molecular disease
- Newborn screening
- Occlusion
- Oxygen tension
- Pain crisis
- Pauling
- Polymerization
- Recessive
- Recessive genetic disorder
- Red blood cell
- Sickle
- Sickle cell
- Sickle cell anemia
- Sickle cell crisis
- Sickle hemoglobin
- Silent stroke
- Single nucleotide substitution
- Transfusion
- Universal newborn screening