An inherited defect in the ability to produce hemoglobin, usually seen in persons of Mediterranean background is thalassemia.
What is anemia and how it causes?
- Anemia is a condition where there are either too few red blood cells or too little hemoglobin in them.
- Iron-deficiency anemia, pernicious anemia, aplastic anemia, and hemo- lytic anemia are the three types of anemia.
- The immune system targeting the stem cells in your bone marrow is the most frequent cause of aplastic anemia.
- Radiation and chemotherapy treatments are two more variables that might harm bone marrow and alter blood cell formation.
- Aplastic anemia that runs in the family is transmitted genetically from father to offspring.
- Compared to acquired aplastic anemia, it is typically diagnosed in childhood and is significantly less frequent.
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