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... must target the female while she is still in school • Toilets and latrines In Maharashtra, 85% of rural households and 54% of all households have no access at all toa toilet facility While the ... andthe use of oral rehydration therapy (ORT) .1 The purpose of this plan of action is to improve the health, and therefore the quality of life, of all citizens, especially mothers and their children ... families • Mass media 70% of all women in Maharashtra are regularly exposed tosome form of mass media, and growing numbers of villagers are gaining access to television and radio If all the available...
... abnormality allows excessive complement activation, with bouts of production of membrane attack complex capable of severely damaging normal cells General Clinical and Laboratory Features The clinical ... preferential site of hemolysis; in some cases the liver may be enlarged as well In all severe congenital forms of HA, skeletal changes may be noted dueto over-activity ofthe bone marrow (although they ... is appropriate to consider what they have in common Table 10 1 -1 Classification of Hemolytic Anemiasa Intracorpuscular Defects Hereditary Hemoglobinopathies Extracorpuscular Factors Familial hemolytic...
... amount of hemoglobin in the cytoplasm (to a final level of 340 g /L, i.e., about mM) goes hand in hand with the gradual loss of cellular organelles andof biosynthetic abilities In the end the erythroid ... in essence, any sort of metabolic failure will eventually lead either to structural damage tothe membrane or to failure ofthe cation pump In either case the life span ofthe red cell is reduced, ... most enzymes gradually decreases as red cells age Another consequence ofthe relative simplicity of red cells is that they have a very limited range of ways to manifest distress under hardship:...
... frequent blood transfusions Chronic iron overload will cause secondary hemochromatosis; this will cause damage, particularly tothe liver, eventually leading to cirrhosis, andtothe heart muscle, ... that the life span of red cells is reduced (compared tothe normal value of about 12 0 days) is a red cell survival study, which can be carried out by labeling the red cells with 51 Cr and measuring ... eventually causing heart failure The increased activity ofthe bone marrow also entails an increased requirement for erythropoietic factors, particularly folic acid Compensated Hemolysis versus HA...
... extracellular domains of many of these proteins are heavily glycosylated, and they carry antigenic determinants that correspond to blood groups Underneath the membrane, and tangential to it, ... abnormalities are almost invariably inherited mutations, and thus diseases ofthe membrane-cytoskeleton complex belong tothe category of inherited hemolytic anemias Before the red cells lyse, they often ... spherocytosis (HS) and hereditary elliptocytosis (HE) Their molecular basis has been elucidated Hereditary Spherocytosis This is a relatively common type of hemolytic anemia, with an estimated frequency...
... for majority of HS SLC 4A 1 7q2 1 Band HS (anion (dominant) channel) Mutations of this gene may account for ~25% of HS Southea st Polymorp Asian hic mutation ovalocytosis (deletion of (dominant) amino ... (dominant) amino acids); clinically asymptomatic; protective against Plasmodium falciparum EPB 41 1p33-p34.2 Band 4 .1 HE (dominant) Mutations of this gene account for about 5% of mostly HE, with prominent ... Rhesu Chronic Very rare; s antigen nonspherocytic associated with hemolytic total loss of all anemia Rh antigens Note: HS, hereditary spherocytosis; HE, hereditary elliptocytosis ...
... that of HS However, an asymptomatic form, referred to as Southeast Asian ovalocytosis, has a frequency of up to 7% in certain populations, presumably as a result of malaria selection Stomatocytosis ... central pallor Hemolysis is usually relatively mild Splenectomy is contraindicated as it has been followed in a majority of cases by severe thromboembolic complications Enzyme Abnormalities When there ... evidence-based) are as follows Avoid splenectomy in mild cases Delay splenectomy until at least years of age, after the risk of severe sepsis has peaked imperative, Antipneumococcal whereas vaccination...
... synthase 2 0q1 1 γ- Ver y rare 6p12 Glutamylcystein CN S Ver y rare CN S e synthase Cytochro 2 2q1 3 me b5 reductase 31 qter Rar e CN S Methemo globinemia rather than hemolysis Nu cleotide Adenylate ... Diphosph oglycerate 7q3 1q3 4 Ver Erythrocy y rare tosis rather than mutase (DPGM) Phosphog lycerate hemolysis Xq13 kinase Ver y rare CN S, NM May benefit (PGK) from splenectomy Pyruvate 1q2 1 kinase (PK) ... (PFK) Aldolase 1 6q2 2 -24 Triose Ver y rare 12 p13 phosphate Ver y rare CN S isomerase (TPI) (severe), NM Glycerald 12 p13 Ver My ehyde 3- 31 p13 .1 y rare opathy phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPD) Diphosph...
... enzyme by quantitative assays carried out in only a few specialized laboratories If a particular molecular abnormality is already known in the family, then of course one could test directly for ... inactivation, heterozygous females are genetic mosaics, with a highly variable ratio of G6PD-normal to G6PDdeficient cells and an equally variable degree of clinical expression; some heterozygotes ... directly and via reduced glutathione (GSH), defends these cells against oxidative stress G6PD deficiency is a prime example of an HA dueto interaction between an intracorpuscular and an extracorpuscular...
... of triggers: (1) fava beans, (2) infections, and (3) drugs (Table 10 1-5) Typically, a hemolytic attack starts with malaise, weakness, and abdominal or lumbar pain After an interval of several ... to extremely severe, usually normocytic and normochromic, anddue partly to intravascular hemolysis; hence, it is associated with hemoglobinemia, hemoglobinuria, and low or absent plasma haptoglobin ... clinically asymptomatic throughout their lifetime However, all of them have an increased risk of developing neonatal jaundice (NNJ) anda risk of developing acute HA when challenged by a number of...
... are also vulnerable to acute oxidative damage, and therefore the same agents (see Table 10 1-5) that can cause acute HA in people with the ordinary type of G6PD deficiency will cause severe exacerbations ... usually with a history of NNJ, who may present with anemia or unexplained jaundice, or because of gallstones later in life The spleen may be enlarged The severity of anemia ranges from borderline ... of GSH metabolism are exceedingly rare, but each one of them can give rise to chronic HA (Table 10 1-4) A rare, peculiar, usually self-limited severe HA ofthe first month of life, called infantile...
... familial HUS Acquired Hemolytic Anemia Mechanical Destruction of Red Cells Although red cells are characterized by the remarkable deformability that enables them to squeeze through capillaries narrower ... pathway following damage to endothelial cells in the kidney, one ofthe results will be brisk hemolysis Thus, the much more common Shiga toxin–related HUS can be regarded as a phenocopy of familial ... autoimmune HA (see below) Usually HA would gradually subside once methyldopa was discontinued Nucleosides may also cause hemolysis by depletion of ATP Ribavirin, a drug used in the treatment of hepatitis...
... some cases the nature ofthe antibody is such (usually an IgM antibody) that the antigen-antibody complex on the surface of red cells is able to activate complement (C) As a result, a large amount ... circulating monocytes can take part in this process, most ofthe phagocytosis-mediated red cell destruction takes place in the spleen and liver, and it is therefore called extravascular hemolysis ... amount of membrane attack complex will form, andthe red cells may be destroyed directly, known as intravascular hemolysis Figure 10 1-7 Mechanism of antibody-mediated immune destruction of red cells...
... form of AIHA were called warm antibodies In mild forms of CAD, avoidance of exposure to cold may be all that is needed to enable the patient to live with a reasonably comfortable quality of life, ... prominent the more the body is exposed to cold The antibody is usually an IgM, usually has an anti-I specificity (the I antigen is present on the red cells of almost everyone), and may have a very high ... subsequently, recovery is the rule Cold Agglutinin Disease (CAD) This designation is used for a form of chronic AIHA that usually affects the elderly and has special clinical and pathologic features...
... is mildly or moderately elevated, LDH is typically markedly elevated (values in the thousands are common), and haptoglobin is usually undetectable All these findings make the diagnosis of HA compelling ... the case of red cells and at least 20% ofthe total in the case of granulocytes Pathophysiology Hemolysis in PNH is dueto an intrinsic abnormality ofthe red cell, which makes it exquisitely ... secondary to severe neutropenia and hemorrhage secondary to severe thrombocytopenia PNH may evolve into aplastic anemia (AA), and PNH may manifest itself in patients who previously had AA Rarely...
... one-half ofthe patients Eculizumab administered intravenously at q2 wk intervals also ameliorated the anemia in most patients and dramatically improved their quality of life Figure 10 1-9 Therapeutic ... immunosuppressive treatment with antilymphocyte globulin (ALG or ATG) and cyclosporine A may be indicated Although no formal trial has ever been conducted, this approach has helped particularly to relieve severe ... excellent removal of white cells are routinely used, the traditional washing of red cells, which aimed to avoid white cell reactions triggering hemolysis, is no longer necessary and considered wasteful...
... cross-table was built by simultaneous classification of dual patterns into the categories of similarity S and according tothe cumulative combinations ofthe Four Examinations The null hypothesis was ... (simulation of manifestation profiles; cutoffestimation for N %; pattern identification with F% and N %-cutoff of simulated cases; and statistical analysis) Additionally, MPSA and PDA are composed of ... http://www.cmjournal.org/content/6 /1/ 1 Page of13 Table Cross-table of simulated cases and controls classified simultaneously by pattern differentiation outcome andthe incremental combination ofthe Four Examinations Pattern...
... coli BL 21( DE3)/pLysS/pISCA1; lane 3, IscA1 after ammonium sulfate precipitation; lane 4, IscA1 after hydrophobic interaction chromatography; lane 5, IscA1 after hydroxy apatite chromatography In ... Further studies are required to clarify the role of residue C44 Replacement of C 110 and C 112 led toa complete loss of cluster-binding ability of IscA Since the Mossbauer data ¨ indicated an all-cysteine ... Slr1 417 (Synechocystis IscA1) NP_440066, Athal1 (Arabidopsis thaliana IscA1) AC007067.4, P_purp (Porphyra purpurea) NP_053827, Athal2 (Arabidopsis thaliana IscA2) AC005825.3, Athal3 (Arabidopsis...