Synopses & Reviews
Clinical Laboratory Hematology, Third Edition, continues its stellar reputation as a comprehensive, yet reader-friendly, resource for all levels of hematology laboratory education, offering a visually engaging design and effective learning features that help students master the content. The text’s teaching and learning package includes an Instructor’s Manual, PowerPoint presentation slides, a test bank, image bank, and a companion website with resources for both instructor and students.
Teaching and Learning Experience:
- Designed for both MLT and MLS students, the text provides a beneficial and economical resource for laboratory science programs that offer both levels of instruction and includes a wealth of learning features.
- Each chapter features a consistent format with a striking visual design, making it easy for the reader to find information on each topic.
- Complemented by a variety of ancillary materials designed to help instructors be more efficient and effective and students more successful.
Synopsis
For courses in beginning and advanced hematology for MLS and MLT students.
Clinical Laboratory Hematology, Third Edition, continues its stellar reputation as a comprehensive, yet reader-friendly, resource for all levels of hematology laboratory education, offering a visually engaging design and effective learning features that help students master the content. The text's teaching and learning package includes an Instructor's Manual, PowerPoint presentation slides, a test bank, image bank, and a companion website with resources for both instructor and students.
Teaching and Learning Experience:
- Designed for both MLT and MLS students, the text provides a beneficial and economical resource for laboratory science programs that offer both levels of instruction and includes a wealth of learning features.
- Each chapter features a consistent format with a striking visual design, making it easy for the reader to find information on each topic.
- Complemented by a variety of ancillary materials designed to help instructors be more efficient and effective and students more successful.
Table of Contents
ONE: INTRODUCTION TO HEMATOLOGY
1. Introduction
2. Cellular Homeostasis
3. Structure and Function of Hematopoietic Organs
TWO: BLOOD CELL PRODUCTION AND FUNCTION
4. Hematopoiesis
5. The erythrocyte
6. Hemoglobin
7. The leukocyte: Granulocytes and Monocytes
8. The leukocyte: Lymphocytes
9. The Platelet
THREE: LABORATORY EXAMINATION OF BLOOD CELLS
10. The Complete Blood Count and Peripheral Blood Smear
FOUR: THE ANEMIAS
11. Introduction to anemia
12. Anemias of disordered iron metabolism and heme synthesis
13. Hemoglobinopathies: qualitative defects
14. Thalassemia
15. Megaloblastic and nonmegaloblastic anemias
16. Hypoproliferative anemias
17. Hemolytic anemia: membrane defects
18. Hemolytic anemia: enzyme defects
19. Hemolytic anemia: immune defects
20. Hemolytic anemia: nonimmune defects
FIVE: NONMALIGNANT DISORDERS OF LEUKOCYTES
21. Nonmalignant granulocytic and monocytic disorders
22. Nonmalignant lymphocytic disorders
SIX: NEOPLASTIC HEMATOLOGIC DISORDERS
23. Introduction to hematopoietic neoplasms
24. Myeloproliferative neoplasms
25. Myelodysplastic syndromes
26. Acute myeloid leukemia
27. Acute lymphocytic leukemia
28. Lymphoid malignancies:chronic lymphoid leukemias, lymphoma and plasma cell neoplasms
29. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
SEVEN: BODY FLUIDS
30. Body fluids
EIGHT: HEMOSTASIS
31. Primary hemostasis
32. Secondary hemostasis
33. Disorders of primary hemostasis
34. Disorders of secondary hemostasis
35. Thromobophilia
36. Coagulation procedures and automation
NINE: HEMATOLOGY PROCEDURES
37. Hematology procedures
38. Bone marrow examination
39. Automation in hematology
40. Flow cytometry
41. Chromosome analysis of hematopoietic and lymphoid disorders
42. Molecular analysis of hematopoietic diseases
TEN: QUALITY ASSESSMENT IN HEMATOLOGY
43. Quality Assurance
APPENDIX A: ANSWERS TO REVIEW QUESTIONS
GLOSSARY
INDEX