Question

The practitioner carefully monitors his client who exhibits hemoglobin S (HbS) genes. The practitioner know that the client is predisposed to life-threatening infection due to damage by HbS to which of the following organs?

-Spleen
-Lungs
-Heart
-Pancreas

Answer 1

Answer is spleen.

Step-by-step explanation:

Spleen is an organ in the body, and responsible for various actions like blood purification, removal of damaged blood cells and production of white blood cell.

Splenic sequestation is a situation where the spleen becomes enlarged. And this is common to sickle cell anemia people, especially the children. That is , the shape of the red blood cells are sickle.

In this case , the spleen becomes bigger , and the amount of oxygenated blood cells in the body are reduced.