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Beta thalassemia is a blood disorder caused by a genetic mutation resulting in reduced or absent hemoglobin. There are three main types - minor, intermediate, and major (Cooley's anemia). Beta thalassemia major causes severe lifelong anemia beginning in infancy that can be fatal without regular blood transfusions and other treatments. Symptoms include paleness, delayed growth, and bone marrow expansion. The condition is most common in people of Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, Indian, African, Chinese, and Southeast Asian ancestry.
Beta thalassemia is a blood disorder caused by a genetic mutation resulting in reduced or absent hemoglobin. There are three main types - minor, intermediate, and major (Cooley's anemia). Beta thalassemia major causes severe lifelong anemia beginning in infancy that can be fatal without regular blood transfusions and other treatments. Symptoms include paleness, delayed growth, and bone marrow expansion. The condition is most common in people of Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, Indian, African, Chinese, and Southeast Asian ancestry.
Beta thalassemia is a blood disorder caused by a genetic mutation resulting in reduced or absent hemoglobin. There are three main types - minor, intermediate, and major (Cooley's anemia). Beta thalassemia major causes severe lifelong anemia beginning in infancy that can be fatal without regular blood transfusions and other treatments. Symptoms include paleness, delayed growth, and bone marrow expansion. The condition is most common in people of Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, Indian, African, Chinese, and Southeast Asian ancestry.
disorders characterized reduced or absent amounts of hemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying protein inside the red blood cells. Two Basic Groups of Thalassemia Disorder
• Alpha Thalassemia
• Beta Thalassemia: A person with this
disorder has two mutated genes There are 3 types of Beta Thalassemia
• Thalassemia Minor
• Thalassemia Intermediate.
• Thalassemia Major or Cooley's Anemia
Thalassemias In the case of beta thalassemias, in contrast to alpha -thalassemias, the most frequently encountered molecular abnormalities are point mutations and short insertions or deletions limited to a few nucleotides
chain is still synthesized. The quantity of
Two situations have clearly to be globin chain, which is made, varies largely distinguished: from one molecular defect to another, this In beta + thalassemias, the mutated chain may be structurally normal or gene encodes for a small amount of abnormal In beta 0 thalassemias , the gene is normal mRNA and, thus, a low amount unable to encode for any functional mRNA of and therefore there is no beta chain synthesize Beta Thalasemia • It is caused by a change in the gene for the beta globin component of hemoglobin
• It can cause variable anemia that can range from
moderate to severe.
• Beta thalassemia trait is seen most commonly in people
with the following ancestry: Mediterranean (including North African, and particularly Italian and Greek), Middle Eastern, Indian, African, Chinese, and Southeast Asian (including Vietnamese, Laotian, Thai, Singaporean, Filipino, Cambodian, Malaysian, Burmese, and Indonesian Symptoms of Beta Thalassemia
• It is characterize by severe anemia that
can begin months after birth • Paleness • Delays in growth and development • Bone marrow expansion. • Untreated Beta Thalassemia major can lead to child death due to heart failure. Alpha and Beta Thalassemias • The thalassemias are, therefore, considered quantitative hemoglobin diseases.
• Because all types of thalassemia are
caused by changes in either the alpha- or beta-globin gene. These changes cause little or no globin to be produced. Treatment of Beta Thalassemia • Regular blood transfusion helps prevent severe anemia and allows for more normal growth and development
• There are various medications that target
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