by Kenneth R. Bridges
Anemias and Other Red Cell Disorders is the first resource to provide a practical diagnostic/treatment framework for identifying and successfully managing acute, congenital, and chronic anemias, and other red blood cell disorders.
Features:
- A complete top-to-bottom review of anemias, written with the non-specialist in mind
- Logical chapter organization based on the clinical features that prompt the initial encounter between doctor and patient
- Discussions of anemias related to physiological conditions such as anemia in age and pregnancy, or due to endocrine and metabolic conditions-categories that are commonly encountered in clinical practice but rarely addressed in traditional hematology texts
- A unified patient management strategy in each consistently formatted chapter
- Key Diagnostic Features and Key Management Issues tables within each chapter
- Practical insights that help you review pathologic material to determine the presence and severity of the disease
- Coverage of treatment modalities at the forefront of clinical practice, including chemotherapy, monoclonal antibodies, stem and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Contents
I. Anemia: Overview
II. Severe Anemias with Minimal Symptoms
Adults
- Nutritional Anemias
- Hormone Deficiency
- Stem Cell Dysfunction
- Immune Dysregulation
Children
- Nutritional Anemias
- Hormone Deficiency
- Membrane Disorders
- Enzymopathies
- Hemoglobinopathy
- Congenital Dyserythropoietic Anemia
- Diamond-Blackfan Anemia
- Immune Dysregulation
III. Mild to Moderate Anemias with Minimal Symptoms
Adults
- (Same as Severe)
- Hemoglobinopathies
- Membrane Disorders
- Enzymopathies
- Immune Dysregulation
- Anemia of Chronic Inflammation
HIV
- (Same as Severe)
- Sideroblastic Anemia
- Anemia of Chronic Inflammation
IV. Anemias with Prominent Symptom Complexes
Adults
- Hemoglobinopathies
Children
- Hemoglobinopathies
Index
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