Williams Hematology: The Red Cell and Its Diseases

Red blood cell disorders can lead to organ malfunction and various issues, including deformities, enlarged spleen, heart problems, and other diseases. Williams Hematology: The Red Cells and its Diseases provides a practical diagnostic and treatment framework for clinicians to identify and manage acute, congenital, and chronic red blood cell disorders.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 608 pages
Publication date: 29 November 2021
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

When red blood cells lack sufficient hemoglobin, oxygen cannot adequately reach various body parts, leading to a range of complications. These issues can manifest as deformities, an enlarged spleen, heart problems, and various other diseases. There exist a multitude of red cell disorders, including iron deficiency anemia, pernicious anemia, aplastic anemia, autoimmune hemolytic anemia, sickle cell, thalassemia, and other hemoglobinopathies.

Williams Hematology: The Red Cells and its Diseases serves as a valuable resource for clinicians, offering a practical diagnostic and treatment framework for identifying and effectively managing acute, congenital, and chronic red blood cell disorders. Presented in a user-friendly template format, the book encompasses classifications, etiology and pathogenesis, clinical and laboratory features, differential diagnosis, treatment, management, and supportive care.

This comprehensive yet concise guide covers:

• The structure and physiology of the red cell
• Classification of red cell diseases
• Diseases of red cell production
• Anemias resulting principally from inherited disorders
• Anemia as a result of exogenous factors
• Polyclonal erythrocytosis
• Red cell transfusion

Weight: 1222g
Dimension: 215 x 274 x 29 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781264269075