Synopses & Reviews
Written by clinicians and scientists at the National Institutes of Health and other leading institutions, the Bethesda Handbook of Clinical Hematology is a concise, complete hematology handbook designed for quick bedside consultation. The book covers all hematologic disorders and provides residents, fellows, and practitioners with need-to-know information on pathophysiology, natural history, risk factors, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up. Coverage includes chapters on consultative hematology, pregnancy-induced disorders, transfusion, stem cell transplantation, DNA studies, and interpretation of standard laboratory tests, clinical flow data, and molecular biology tests. The succinct yet detailed presentation is ideal for board review as well as clinical reference.
Synopsis
Written by clinicians and scientists at the National Institutes of Health and other leading institutions, The Bethesda Handbook of Clinical Hematology, Second Edition is a concise, complete hematology handbook designed for quick bedside consultation. The book covers all hematologic disorders and provides residents, fellows, and practitioners with need-to-know information on pathophysiology, natural history, risk factors, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up. The succinct yet detailed presentation is ideal for board review as well as clinical reference. This thoroughly updated edition includes new information on supportive care and new therapies, including immunomodulatory drugs, growth factors, and epigenetic-acting agents and their role in selected disorders.
Table of Contents
- Iron deficiency - Horne
- Nutritional deficiencies: Folate and Vitamin B12 - Horne
- Hemolytic anemias I: Inherited and acquired membrane and enzyme defects - Miller + Rodgers
- Hemolytic anemias IV: Genetic defects of hemoglobin: thalassemia and sickle cell disease - Tisdale + Rodgers
- Bone marrow failure - Young and Liu
- Chronic myeloid leukemia - Barrett
- Myelodysplasia - Young and Battiwala
- Acute leukemia - Solomon and Vera
- Chronic lymphocytic leukemia - Fellow and Cheson
- Myeloma - S. Dave and Dunbar
- Lymphoma I: Hodgkin lymphoma (Hodgkins disease) - Jaffe
- Lymphoma II: Non-Hodgkin lymphoma - Little and Wilson
- P. vera, myelofibrosis and other myeloproliferative disorders - Sloand and Noel
- White cell disorders, congenital and acquired - Fellow and Malech
- Hemochromatosis - C. Boland and S. Leitman
- Porphyria - Hematti and Lessin
- Thrombocytopenias (ITP, TTP and congenital) - Dunbar + P. Fogarty
- Disorders of coagulation I: coagulation factors - Fogarty and Rick
- Disorders of coagulation II: Qualitative functional platelet disorders, vWD including drug effects - Fogarty and Rick
- Thrombosis and thrombophilia - Kessler + S. Lemery
- Anticoagulation - P. Kumar + Alving
- Blood transfusion (hematological emerg, immune hem) - Fellow + Klein
- Stem cell transplantation - Childs and Barrett
- Interpretation of Standard Laboratory Tests - Kurlander + Schechter
- Interpretation of Clinical Flow Data - Fleisher
- Interpretation of Molecular Biology Tests - Maciejeski
- DNA Studies: Chip/Microarray - Wiestner and Staudt
- Consultative Hematology (include pregnancy, ACD, hypereosinophilia, tropical hematology, cytokines) - Noel
- ALL - A. Wayne 30.
- Childhood Diseases (Inf Mono, ALPS, HUS) - A. Wayne