Sickle Cell Anemia in Infants

Tittle: Disorder

Topic: Article Writing

Question description: For this assignment you will review a single scholarly article in the APUS Library and summarize what it says about a specific infant and toddler disorder of your choice (Infantile Autism, Tay-Sachs Disease, Sickle Cell Anemia and Cerebral Palsy are some examples). This 2-3 page paper must be a review of scholarly research, not commercial Psychology Today, Wikipedia or WebMD style publications or self-help or parent support organization material (the latter is very valuable to families in need of easy to digest and access information, but isn’t applicable to this assignment).

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Red cells often undergo a sickling process that often results in sickle cell anemia. The medical disorder comes about as a result of deoxygenated molecules of hemoglobin that are subjected to the process of polymerization. This often results in polymers that are often rod-like. The current paper seeks to summarize “Long-term hydroxyurea therapy for infants with sickle cell anemia: the HUSOFT extension study” (Hankins, 2005)……words 972