A ppt about hemophilia, Including a good video. This is about what is hemophilia, why is it there, is it a genetic disorder? What percentage of people get it? Whats the average lifespan now and then?

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Hemophilia
By : Lydia MYP 2016 Aug. 30

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Cause of Disorder
 Hemophilia is located in XY chromosome (the 23rd pair).
 More boys have hemophilia than girls
 Hemophilia is an recessive trait
 30% of people have no family history of the disorder.
 There’s 3 types of hemophilia: Hemophilia A, B and C

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Description of Disorder
 Hemophilia is a rare disorder in which your blood doesn't clot normally
because it lacks sufficient blood-clotting proteins (clotting factors).
 If you have hemophilia, you may bleed for a longer time after an injury
than you would if your blood clotted normally.

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Video

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Characteristics
 People who have hemophilia have to live very careful in the
past because there is no cure.
 The life is normal for people who have hemophilia, as long as
you don’t bleed.

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Diagnostic Testing
 In children and adults , a blood test can show a clotting factor
deficiency.
 Hemophilia is diagnosed at an average age of 9 months and
almost always by age 2.
 Sometimes, hemophilia isn‘t diagnosed until a person have
surgery or experiences excessive bleeding.

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Incidence of Hemophilia
 Hemophilia affects approximately 1 in 10,000 people. The
percentage is then approximately 0.01%.
 About 400 babies are born with hemophilia per year.
 Hemophilia doesn‘t affect specific regions but it mostly happen
in US

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Graph

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Cures of Hemophilia
 There is no cure for hemophilia, but there’s treatment. In
nowadays people who have this disorder need to go to the
hospital once a month to have blood transfusion.

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Prognosis
 People without proper treatment couldn‘t live until
adulthood,people with proper treatment will live 10 years less
than a male without hemophilia, and children can look forward
to a normal life expectancy.

11. + History & Research of Hemophilia
 First discovered by a Jewish women.
 A Arab physician Albucasis, who lived in the 12th century, wrote about a
family whose males died of bleeding after injuries.
 In 1803, a Philadelphia physician called Dr.John Conrad Otto wrote
something about hemophilia.He traced the disease through 3 generations
to a woman.

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Economic Implications
If you have hemophilia, you’ll have to pay a lot on it. You cant do
many jobs such as soldiers,engineers and more because you
might bleed easily, you will have to go to the hospital more than
once a month.

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Organizations
 One of the biggest organization is National Hemophilia
Foundation. The National Hemophilia Foundation (NHF) was
founded in 1948. NHF is dedicated to finding better treatments
and cures for bleeding and clotting disorders and to prevent
these disorders through education and research.

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Facts
 Another name for hemophilia B is called “Christmas disease”
 In some cases, people may experience severe bleeding without
injury.
 The British Queen Victoria was a carrier of hemophilia and she
passed it on to her son
 Before 1938, the average lifespan was 11 years old
 Abraham Lincoln had hemophilia,along with his mother.
 There is no cure and cannot be prevented.

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Works Cited
Date Website
September 3rd, 2016 http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-
conditions/hemophilia/basics/tests-
diagnosis/con-20029824
September 4th, 2016 http://www.rightdiagnosis.com/h/hemophilia/p
rognosis.htm
September 4th, 2016 http://www.rightdiagnosis.com/h/hemophilia/p
rognosis.htm
September 5th, 2016 http://www.nationalhaemophiliacouncil.ie/hom
efaqswhat_is_the_life_expectancy_of_someo
ne_with_haemophilia/
September 6th, 2016 http://www.rightdiagnosis.com/h/hemophilia/p
rognosis.htm
September 7th, 2016 http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-
conditions/hemophilia/basics/tests-
diagnosis/con-20029824

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