Diseases and abnormal conditions

Anemia

• inadequate number of red

  blood cells,

  hemoglobin, or

  both

• injury or destruction of

  bone marrow; poor or no

  formation of RBC’s

• Ballooning out

  (saclike formation) of

  an artery wallartery wall

• Vessel becomes

  clogged with

  hardened material

  (“hardening of

  the arteries”)

Aplastic-

• inadequate number of red

  blood cells,

  hemoglobin, or

  both

• injury or destruction of

  bone marrow; poor or no

  formation of RBC’s

• Ballooning out

  (saclike formation) of

  an artery wall artery wall

• Vessel becomes

  clogged with

  hardened material

  (“hardening of

  the arteries”)

Pernicious-

• inadequate number of red

  blood cells,

  hemoglobin, or

  both

• Vessel becomes

  clogged with

  hardened material

  (“hardening of

  the arteries”)

• injury or destruction of

  bone marrow; poor or no

  formation of RBC’s

• abnormally large and

  inadequate number of RBC’s

Sickly Cell-

• Vessel becomes

  clogged with

  hardened material

  (“hardening of

  the arteries”)

• injury or destruction of

  bone marrow; poor or no

  formation of RBC’s

• abnormally large and

  inadequate number of RBC’s

• - inherited; production of

  abnormal shaped RBC’s;

  African Americans

Arteriosclerosis-

• Ballooning out

  (saclike formation) of

  an artery artery wall

• inadequate number of red

  blood cells,

  hemoglobin, or

  both

• Vessel becomes

  clogged with

  hardened material

  (“hardening of

  the arteries”)

• Artery

  becomes

  clogged with

  fatty

  material

Aneurysm-

• Ballooning out

  (saclike formation) of

  an artery wall

• Vessel becomes

  clogged with

  hardened material

  (“hardening of

  the arteries”)

• To remove/compress deposits in

  arteries , or to insert a stent arteries

• Artery

  becomes

  clogged with

  fatty

  material

Atherosclerosis-

• Ballooning out

  (saclike formation) of

  an artery wall

• Vessel becomes

  clogged with

  hardened material

  (“hardening of

  the arteries”)

• To remove/compress deposits in

  arteries , or to insert a stent arteries

• Artery

  becomes

  clogged with

  fatty

  material

Angioplasty-

• Artery

  becomes

  clogged with

  fatty

  material

• To remove/compress deposits in

  arteries , or to insert a stent arteries

• Foreign

  substance

  circulating in blood

• inherited disease

  that occurs mostly in

  males but can be

  carried by females

Embolus-

• Artery

  becomes

  clogged with

  fatty

  material

• To remove/compress deposits in

  arteries , or to insert a stent arteries

• Foreign

  substance

  circulating in blood

• inherited disease

  that occurs mostly in

  males but can be

  carried by females