The Mysterious Disease Of Patient X Case Studies

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Jaylene Sandoval
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The Mysterious Disease of Patient X: The mysterious disease of patient X is called sickle cell anemia.In an experiment we saw a blood sample of both a normal person and patient X.The normal blood sample had what should be in you blood which includes thrombocytes(platelets) ,erythrocytes(red blood cells),and leukocytes(white blood cell).Erythrocytes transports O2,Thrombocytes are all over your blood,and leukocytes fight foreign antigens.Since patient X has a disease his blood has deform red blood cells this could be the cause of virus,lack of iron he has,or it could just have been mutated/genetic.The disease is also caused when hemoglobin(molecule made up of haem;it's also nonpolar) gets clump up in low oxygen