Anemia in the Young and Old Diagnosis and Management /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Means Jr., Robert T. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Hematology.

This text provides a concise yet comprehensive overview of anemia in the young and old. The first section of the volume features age-specific diagnostic approaches to anemia, from the perinatal period to the elderly, with a particular emphasis on age-specific epidemiology, differential diagnosis, an...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Anemia at the Extremes of Life
• Diagnostic Approach to Anemia in Childhood and Adolescents
• Approach to Anemia in the Elderly
• Inherited Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes
• Iron Deficiency Anemia During Childhood
• Anemia at the Extremes of Life: Congenital Hemolytic Anemia
• Immune-Mediated Hemolytic Anemia
• Anemia of Renal Failure/Chronic Kidney Disease- The Anemia of Inflammation/Chronic Disease and the Unexplained Anemia of the Elderly
• Pure Red Cell Aplasia
• Anemia in Elderly Patients: State of Art, with a Focus on Nutritional Anemia
• Clonal Hematopoiesis and Cytopenias in the Elderly.