Spherocytic Anemia

Important
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Words

• Acholuric Jaundice
• Persistent Acholuric Jaundice
• Congenital Hemolytic Anemia
• Genetic Hemolytic Jaundice
• Hereditary Spherocytic Anemia
• Hereditary Spherocytosis
• HS
• Icterus (Persistent Domestic)
• Minkowski-Chauffard Syndrome
• SPH2
• Spherocytic Anemia
• Spherocytosis

Disorder Communities

• None

General Discussion
Genetic spherocytic hemolytic anemia is an unusual blood problem identified by problems within red blood cells (intracorpuscular) that lead to a minimized survival time for these cells. Red cell (erythrocytes) generally circulate for a couple of months and when they die off is changed by brand-new erythrocytes. However, in hereditary spherocytic hemolytic anemia, the cells die prematurely. They additionally have low quantities of fats (lipid) in the cell membranes and also an extraordinarily small amount of surface area. The red cell are sphere-shaped (spherocytic) making it difficult for them to pass through the spleen, leading to the very early destruction of these cells (hemolysis). The sphere shape of the red blood cells is the characteristic of this disorder, and this problem might be identified under a microscopic lense. Hereditary spherocytic hemolytic anemia is caused by an acquired metabolic defect.