What is a PET/CT scan? Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Computed Tomography (CT) scans are both standard imaging tools that physicians use to pinpoint disease states in the body. A PET scan images the cellular activity of the body at a very early stage, often before anatomical changes take place.
Tularemia is a rare infectious disease that typically attacks the skin, eyes, lymph nodes and lungs. Tularemia â also called rabbit fever or deer fly fever â is caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis.
Thalassemia is a group of inherited blood disorders that affect the body's ability to produce hemoglobin and red blood cells-patients have a lower-than-normal number of red blood cells in their bodies and too little hemoglobin. In many cases the red blood cells are too small.Our red blood cells carry hemoglobin.he alpha thalassemia patient's hemoglobin does not produce enough alpha protein. This type is commonly found in southern China, Southeast Asia, India, the Middle East, and Africa. To make alpha globin protein chains we need four genes, two on each chromosome 16.