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Haematology
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2013.
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| Colección: | New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Haematology Lecture Notes
- Contents
- Preface to the first edition
- Preface to the ninth edition
- 1 An introduction to haematopoiesis
- Where is blood formed?
- Haemopoietic stem cells
- Differentiating blood cells
- Myelopoiesis
- Granulocytes and their function
- Monocytopoiesis and monocyte function
- Megakaryocytes and platelet function
- Erythropoiesis and red cell function
- Lymphopoiesis
- Summary
- 2 Anaemia: General principles
- Anaemia
- Symptoms and signs of anaemia
- The normal control of red cell production
- Morphological classification of anaemias
- Microcytic anaemia: Iron handling and iron deficiency anaemia
- Iron absorption
- How does iron deficiency arise?
- The manifestations of iron deficiency
- Confirming a diagnosis of iron deficiency
- Treating iron deficiency
- Other causes of microcytic hypochromic anaemia
- Normocytic anaemia
- The anaemia of chronic disease
- Other causes of normocytic anaemia
- Macrocytic anaemia
- Causes of megaloblastic anaemia: vitamin B12 and folate deficiency
- How do B12 and folate deficiency arise?
- The clinical manifestations of B12 and folate deficiency
- Confirming a diagnosis of B12 or folate deficiency
- Other causes of megaloblastosis
- Normoblastic macrocytosis
- Polycythaemia (erythrocytosis)
- True polycythaemia
- 3 Haemolytic anaemias
- Laboratory evidence of haemolysis
- Clinical features of haemolysis
- Classifying haemolytic anaemias and establishing a diagnosis
- Congenital haemolytic anaemias
- Haemolysis due to defects of the red cell membrane
- Haemolysis due to abnormalities of red cell enzymes
- Haemolysis due to haemoglobin defects
- Acquired haemolytic anaemias
- Immune haemolytic anaemias
- Monocytosis
- Lymphocytosis and lymphopenia
- Transient lymphocytosis
- Persistent lymphocytosis
- Flow cytometry: A technique for identification of cells in suspension
- Infectious mononucleosis
- EBV infection
- CMV infection
- Toxoplasmosis
- HIV
- Leucoerythroblastic reaction
- 6 Structure and function of lymphoid tissue
- Lymph node structure
- Other lymphoid tissue
- Immunoglobulin structure and gene rearrangement
- Light chains
- Heavy chains
- Antibody diversity
- B-cell selection and maturation
- T-lymphocyte antigen receptors
- Natural killer cells