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Referenced to the world's leading hematology text, Williams Hematology, this portable, pocket-sized, but comprehensive, reference provides on-the-spot answers to the problems you face daily. Williams Manual of Hematology, gives you speedy access to the most recent clinical information on:
Common and uncommon blood disorders including:
* differential diagnosis of the major categories of hematological diseases
* red cell, white cell, and platelet disorders
* hemostatic and thrombotic diseases
* clonal myeloid diseases from clonal anemia to acuteleukemia
* lymphomas and lymphocytic leukemias
* inherited blood disorders
* Etiology and pathogenesis
* Clinical findings
* Laboratory findings
* Differential diagnosis
* Most recent advances in treatment and management
* Numerous tables and figures of supporting information
Designed to be easy to use.Formatted to help the expert and the noviceUseful for Medical Students, Residents, Fellows, Internists, Pediatricians, Hematologists, and Oncologists
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Synopsis
A portable, quick-reference guide with clinical information on over 100 hematologic diseases and their management. Based on the new Sixth Edition of Williams Hematology, the handbook presents concise information on etiology and pathogenesis, clinical and lab features, differential diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis.
Table of Contents
1. Approach To The Patient
2. Supportive Care: Antimicrobials, Catheters, and Pain Control
3. Pharmacology and Toxicity of Antineoplastic Drugs
4. Classification of Red Cell Disorders
5. Aplastic Anemia
6. Pure Red Cell Aplasia
7. Anemia of Chronic Renal Failure
8. Anemia of Endocrine Disorders
9. Congenital Dyserythropoietic Anemias
10. The Megaloblastic Anemias
11. Iron Deficiency Anemia
12. Anemia Resulting From Other Nutritional Deficiencies
13. Disorders of Iron Storage and Transport
14. Hereditary And Acquired Sideroblastic Anemias
15. Anemia Resulting from Marrow Infiltration
16. Anemia of Chronic Disease
17. Hereditary Spherocytosis, Elliptocytosis, and Related Disorders
18. Hemolytic Anemia Related To Red Cell Enzyme Defects
19. The Thalassemias
20. The Sickle Cell Diseases and Related Disorders
21. Hemoglobinopathies Associated With Unstable Hemoglobin
22. Methemoglobinemia And Other Causes of Cyanosis
23. Traumatic Hemolytic Anemia, March Hemoglobinuria, Sports And Space Related Anemia
24. Microangiopathic Hemolytic Anemia
25. Hemolytic Anemia Resulting From A Physical Or Chemical Agent
26. Hemolytic Anemia Resulting From Infectious Agents
27. Hemolytic Anemia Resulting From Warm-Reacting Antibodies
28. Cryopathic Hemolytic Anemia
29. Drug-Induced Hemolytic Anemia
30. Alloimmune Hemolytic Disease of The Newborn
31. Acute Blood Loss Anemia
32. Hypersplenism and hyposplenism
33. The Polycythemias
34. Hematologic Aspects of Porphyria
35. Classification and Clinical Manifestations of Neutrophil Disorders
36. Neutropenia and Neutrophilia
37. Qualitative Disorder of Neutrophils
38. Eosinophils And Their Diseases
39. Basophils And Mast Cells And Their Diseases
40. Monocytosis And Monocytopenia
41. Inflammatory And Malignant Histiocytosis42. Lipid Storage Disease
43. Classification and linical Manifestations of Clonal Myeloid Diseases
44. Clonal Cytopenias And Oligoblastic Leukemias (Myelodysplasias)
45. Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria
46. The Acute Myelogenous Leukemias
47. The Chronic Myelogenous leukemias
48. Idiopathic Myelofibrosis (Agnogenic Myeloid Metaplasia)
49. Classification of the Benign Lymphoid Disorders
50. Lymphocytosis And Lymphocytopenia
51. Primary Immunodeficiency Syndrome
52. The Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
53. The Mononucleosis Syndromes
54. Classification and Clinical Manifestations of the Malignant Lymphoid Disorders
55. The Acute Lymphocytic Leukemias
56. The Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemias
57. Hairy Cell Leukemia
58. Large Granular Lymphocytic Leukemia
59. The Lymphomas
60. Hodgkin Lymphoma
61. The Monoclonal Gammopathies and Plasma Cell Dyscrasias
62. Myeloma
63. Macroglobulinemia
64. Heavy-chain diseases
65. Amyloidosis
66. Clinical Manifestations, Evaluation, and Classification of Disorders of Hemostasis
67. The Thrombocytopenias
68. Essential Thrombocythemia and Thrombocytosis
69. Hereditary Platelet Disorders
70. Acquired Platelet Disorders
71. The Vascular Purpuras
72. Hemophilia A and B
73. von Willebrand disease
74. Hereditary Disorders of Fibrinogen
75. Inherited Deficiencies of Coagulation Factors II, V, VII, X, XI, and XIII and the combined deficiencies of Factors V and VIII and of Vitamin K-dependent Factors
76. Hemostatic Dysfunction Related To Liver Diseases
77. The Antiphospholipid Syndrome( Lupus Anticoagulants and Related Disorders)
78. Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation
79. Hyperfibrinolysis And Therapy With Fibrinolytic Agents
80. Thrombophilia
81. Antiplatelet Therapy
82. Anticoagulant Therapy
83. Fibrinolytic Therapy
84. Transfusion of Blood and of Red Cells
85. Transfusion of Platelets
86. Therapeutic Hemapheresis