Diagnostic Hematology

• Main Author: Beck, Norman (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Internal medicine.; Cardiology.; Hematology.; Pathology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Internal Medicine.

Hematology is sometimes regarded as a purely laboratory subject, but is a clinical specialty in its own right. Understanding hematology requires insight into several distinct aspects: applied physiology, understanding the essential pathological processes of the blood, and the laboratory aspects. Nev...

Table of Contents:

• Preliminary Concepts
• Blood Diseases and Their Diagnosis (1)
• Blood Diseases and Their Diagnosis (2)
• Clinical Interactions Between the Blood and the Other Systems
• The Principles of Diagnosis and the Clinical Examination
• A Practical Approach to the FBC and Hemostatic Screen
• Anemia: General Considerations
• Microcytosis: The Microcytic Anemias
• Macrocytosis: The Macrocytic Anemias
• The Normocytic Anemias
• Thrombocytopenia
• Leukopenia
• Pancytopenia and Bicytopenia
• Thrombocytosis
• The Leukocytoses
• Polycythemia
• Erythrocytosis
• Bleeding Tendency
• Transfusion-Related Problems
• Iron Overload
• The Hypercoagulable States
• The Immune Deficiencies and the Immuno-lympho-plasma Proliferative Disorders
• Complex and Compound Disorders
• Graded Exercises.