What do you know about congenital dyserythropoietic anemia? Have you already encountered this term? If you don’t have any idea yet in this regard, here are the details as follows:
In one reference, congenital dyserythropoietic anemia or CDA describes as a rare blood disorder, similar to the thalassemias. This is characterized by ineffective erythropoiesis resulting from a decrease in the number of red blood cells in the body and a less than normal quantity of hemoglobin in the blood. Because of this shortage, the blood is prevented to carry adequate supply of oxygen needed by the body’s tissues. The various symptoms of anemia are tiredness (fatigue), weakness, pale skin, and other similar complications.
What needed treatment to a patient who has congenital dyserythropoietic anemia? The same reference says that a blood transfusion is the common treatment, however this is vary depending on the type that is acquired and depending on the patient’s credence. In addition, they must accept chalation therapy to survive (deferoxamine, deferasirox or deferiprone) and to eliminate the excess iron that accumulates.
Another option to cure the disorder is through a bone marrow transplant and gene therapy. Through gene therapy it allows for the autologous transplantation of the patient’s own healthy stem cells.
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