Hematology category: 512 books

This book illustrates applications of mathematics to various processes (physiological or artificial) involving flowing blood, including hemorheology, microcirculation, coagulation, kidney filtration and dialysis, offering a historical overview of each topic. Mathematical models are used to simulate...

This practical guide provides all the information necessary to understand the clotting mechanisms, as well as how to prevent, diagnose, and treat bleeding and clotting disorders. Practical Hemostasis and Thrombosis has been updated to reflect all the important advances made since the first edition....

Since its first publication more than 35 years ago, MacSween’s Pathology of the Liver, by Drs. Alastair D. Burt, Linda D. Ferrell, and Stefan G. Hübscher, has established itself as the definitive reference on liver pathology. The 7th Edition continues the tradition of excellence with more than...

This handbook includes current data from the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) guidelines on antithrombotic and thrombolytic therapy, the latest information on heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) and heparin-induced thrombocytopenia with thrombosis (HITT), and an in-depth discussion of...

This book describes Hemochromatosis, Diagnosis and Treatment and Related Diseases Hemochromatosis (iron overload) is a disease in which too much iron accumulates in the body. In hemochromatosis, iron can accumulate in most of the body's organs, but particularly in the liver, heart, and pancreas. Excess...

Low Platelets (Thrombocytopenia) is a medical disorder in which the blood has a fewer than normal number of blood cell fragments called platelets.Platelets are produced in the bone marrow together with other kinds of blood cells.They stick together (clot) to seal small cuts or breaks on blood vessel...

This book provides a concise overview of the state of the art in the biology and treatment of plasma cell malignancies, a heterogeneous group of diseases primarily characterized by the presence of clonal plasma cells within the bone marrow or extramedullary sites. The plasma cell dyscrasias investigated...

Blood has long been an object of intrigue for many of the world's philosophers and physicians, and references to it have existed since the earliest studies of human anatomy. Herodotus of Halicarnassus, whose writings 500 years before the birth of Christ drew on stories collected during his widespread...

This book covers all aspects of chronic radiation syndrome (CRS) based on observations in a unique sample of residents of the Techa riverside villages in the southern Urals who were exposed to radioactive contamination in the 1950s owing to releases of liquid radioactive wastes. The opening chapters...

AIMS OF THE COLOGNE-SYMPOSIUM ON RADIOLABELLED PLATELETS In 1976, M. Thakur et al (1) were the first to publish a paper concerning the in vivo thrombus detection with 111- In-labelled platelets. Previous attempts at scintigraphic thrombus localisation had been disappointing because of the unspecific...

Topics in this publication on tickborne borrelia infections include: Lyme disease epidemiology and transmission; Clinical manifestation and treatment of Lyme disease; Neuroborreliosis; Prevention of Lyme disease; Lyme disease diagnosis - serology; Lyme disease diagnosis - alternatives to serology;...

This new book explores clinical information in the tissue transplantation field and acts as a comprehensive learning tool to comply with regulatory requirements. Broad in scope, coverage includes all the traditionally transplanted tissues and moves into more complex areas of tissue grafting and the...

ITP is low platelets due to autoimmune reaction The platelets remain low because of the fast removal action Low platelets can lead to purpura or bleeding Any loss of blood will affect the process of healing ITP is diagnosed by a blood test called a full blood count. This test shows that there...