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Below are symptoms of a patient related to the Immune andLymphatic Systems. Each person needs to answer all of these andthen reply substantially to their teammates. As a team you shouldcome to a final conclusion on all 3 questions in regards to thePatient and the symptoms. *Only the people in your group/team cansee your discussions. Based on the symptoms answer the followingquestions:

Identify all anatomical structures related to and/or that arebeing affected based on the patient case information. (i.e.tissues, organs, vessels, brain components, membranes)

Explain how the anatomical structures and their physiologicalfunction/dysfunction are interrelated normally and what is goingwrong with the structures in this current patient caseinformation.

Identify and explain possible a diagnosis and what can be doneto fix or reverse the current situation described in the patientcase information. Please be specific and detailed.

Patient Case (Initial Review): (*before reading if you havedealt with anything related to this situation, please no that Imean no added stress and I have dealt with something similarpersonally so I completely understand)

Donna is a 35 year old female who is married and has a 5 yearold daughter. Donna recently found out she was pregnant, but lastweek at 12 weeks she started to spot and went to see the doctor. Atthe doctors, Donna found out she was having a miscarriage and thedoctors decided to look at her blood type and seemed very alarmedand asked her who her doctor was for her first child. Her bloodtype was A-.

*Remember to view this situation through the lens of theImmune and Lymphatic Systems, it should drive yourinquiry/understanding of what is going on here.

I will also be adding some leading questions on Wednesday ofthis week, so be ready to check for more.

Here are some Leading Questions to think about:

Why was the first child okay?

What does blood type have to do with pregnancy andmiscarriage?

Are antibodies involved?

What immune cells might be involved?

What do surface antigens have to do in this situation?

How can this be fixed, treated, and how does that processwork?