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5:18 am
June 10, 2010
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amounting
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Post edited 9:19 am – June 10, 2010 by amounting
A cousin's kid in the west coast was diagnosed with Blackfan Diamond anemia. What struck me the most is the fancy name. This is said to be a rare kind of anemia, affecting only around 600 people worldwide. It's a disease where the bone marrow produces very little or zero red blood cells. It's not definite what causes this one, but a genetic error concerning Gene RPS19 on chromosome 19 is
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9:15 am
June 10, 2010
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saigonrose
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Yeah, I agree, pretty fancy name for a terrible disease. Blackfan
Diamond. I don't know, but saying it gives me an image of a female
anime character with a black fan and a diamond ring.
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2:29 am
June 11, 2010
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bongalem
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I wonder how it got its name. It's sounds just as beautiful as the disease is horrible!
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5:46 am
June 12, 2010
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riversiene
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Poor kid! I have read that several kids with this condition have some physical deformities or heart defects. Some even suffer from an irregular heartbeart because of a lack of oxygen that runs through the body.
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7:58 am
June 13, 2010
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nokialover
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Anyway, I read this and did a little Googling, and found out that Diamond Blackfan Anemia was coined after two doctors who first documented the case in the 1930's. These doctors are Louis Diamond and Kenneth Blackfan.
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4:22 am
June 14, 2010
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morriswarrior
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As with other diseases that are being discovered… this is almost standard nomenclature and is nothing new. A lot of diseases are named after the doctors who first discover them, much like comets and other celestial bodies!
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7:52 pm
August 13, 2010
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questionmark
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This is a very interesting info. The doctors who discovered the disease have very beautiful names.
So this is a genetic disease, meaning a child is born with it? So how is this treated?
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7:33 pm
August 16, 2010
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Rene
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Diamond Blackfan Anemia (DBA) is a blood condition, present at birth, which is characterized by a failure of the bone marrow to produce red blood cells, other blood cells such as white cells and platelets are usually not affected. By itself, the term "anemia" means low red cell counts. Unlike other types of anemia, DBA is a bone marrow failure syndrome. It has also been linked to a genetic
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