Table of Contents

Section I: Red Blood Cell Disorders
1. Normal Erythropoiesis
2. Clinical Approach to Anemia
3. Marrow-Damage Anemia
4. Anemias Associated with a Reduced Erythropoietin Response
5. Iron-Deficiency Anemia
6. Thalassemia
7. Hemoglobinopathies
8. Macrocytic Anemias
9. The Dysplastic and Sideroblastic Anemias
10. Blood Loss Anemia
11. Hemolytic Anemias
12. Anemia in the Elderly
13. Erythrocytosis and Polycythemia Vera
14. Disorders of Porphyrin Metabolism
15. Hemochromatosis
Section II: White Blood Cell Disorders
16. Normal Nyelopoiesis
17. Quantitative and Qualitative Disorders of Neutrophils
18. The Acute Myeloid Leukemias
19. Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia and the Myeloproliferative Disorders
20. Normal Lymphhopoiesis and the Lymphatic System
21. Lymphopenia and Immune Deficiency
22. Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia and Other Leukemic Lymphoproliferative Diseases
23. Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas
24. Hodgkin Lymphoma
25. Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia
26. Plasma Cell Disorders
27. Monocyte-Macrophage Disorders
Section III: Disorders of Hemostatis
28. Normal Hemostatis
29. Clinical Approach to Bleeding Disorders
30. Vascular Purpura
31. Thrombocytopenia
32. Platelet Dysfunction and von Willebrand Disease
33. Hemophilia and Other Intrinsic Pathway Defects
34. Extrinsic and Common Pathway Coagulopathies
35. Consumptive Coagulopathies
36. Thrombotic Disorders
37. Anticoagulation in the Management of Thrombotic Disorders
Section IV: Transfusion Medicine
38. Blood Component Therapy
Index

About the Author

Former Chairman, Department of Medicine Maine Medical Center Portland, ME



Professor of Medicine University of Vermont College of Medicine Burlington, VT