16+ Sickle Cell Anemia Blood Smear Labeled Pictures. Sickle cell anemia (sickle cell disease) is a blood disease that shortens life expectancy. It also causes pain, jaundice, shortness of breath, etc.
Thalassemia Stock Photos, Images, & Pictures | Shutterstock from thumb1.shutterstock.com Sickle cell anemia is a severe hemolytic anemia that results from inheritance of the sickle hemoglobin gene. (a) long, thin, deeply stained cells with pointed ends are irreversibly sickled. Peripheral blood smear shows sickled cells after treatment with sodium metabisulfite.
Blood transfusions are used to treat worsening anemia and sickle cell complications.
The sickle cells also get stuck in blood. Instead, they clog blood vessels. These long, rigid erythrocytes can adhere to the endothelium of small vessels; Sickle cell anemia, hereditary disease that destroys red blood cells by causing them to take on a rigid 'sickle' shape.
