Anemias and Other Red Cell Disorders / Edition 1

by Howard A. Pearson, Kenneth Bridges

Overview

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The first comprehensive, yet concise, clinical guide to the full spectrum of anemias

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. With its broad scope, easy-to-navigate format, and ready-to-apply diagnostic and treatment strategies, this is the most accessible - and essential - guide to anemias and related diseases ever published.

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, and stem and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071419406
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	01/02/2008
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	7.60(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Kenneth R. Bridges, MD is Medical Director, Supportive Care Oncology, Amgen, Inc. in Thousand Oaks, CA.

Howard A. Pearson, MD is Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine.

Table of Contents

Section I: Overview of Anemia
1. Principles of Anemia Evaluation
2. Anemia and Age
3. Anemia and Ethnicity
4. Anemia and Pregnancy
5. Cancer and Anemia
6. Malaria and the Red Cell
Section II: Nutrition and Anemia
7. Iron Deficiency
8. Nutritional Anemias
Section III: Hormone Deficiency
9. Anemia and Endocrine Hormones
Section IV: Stem Cell Dysfunction
10. Pediatric Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes
11. Acquired Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes
12. The Myelodysplastic Syndromes
Section V: Hemoglobin Disorders
13. Sickle Cell Disease
14. Thalassemia
Section VI: Enzymopathies
15. G6PD Deficiency
16. Pyruvate Kinase Deficiency
Section VII: Membrane Disorders
17. Anemias Associated wiht Erythrocyte Membrane
Section VIII: Immune Dysfunction
18. Erythroblastosis Fetalis (Immune Hemolytic Disease of the Newborn)
19. Immune Hemolytic Anemia