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Hematology
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Hematologist
Occupation
Names
Medical Specialist
Type
Specialty
Activity sectors
Medicine
Description
Education required
Doctor of Medicine
Fields of employment
Hospitals, Clinics
Average salary
Hematology, also spelled haematology, is the branch of internal medicine, physiology, pathology, clinical laboratory work, and pediatrics that is concerned with the study of blood, the blood-forming organs, and blood diseases. Hematology includes the study of etiology, diagnosis, treatment, prognosis, and prevention of blood diseases. The laboratology work that goes into the study of blood is frequently performed by a medical technologist. Hematologists physicians also very frequently do further study in oncology - the medical treatment of cancer. Blood diseases affect the production of blood and its components, such as blood cells, hemoglobin, blood proteins, the mechanism of coagulation, etc. Physicians specialized in hematology are known as hematologists. Their routine work mainly includes the care and treatment of patients with hematological diseases, although some may also work at the hematology laboratory viewing blood films and bone marrow slides under the microscope, interpreting various hematological test results. In some institutions, hematologists also manage the hematology laboratory. Physicians who work in hematology laboratories, and most commonly manage them, are pathologists specialized in the diagnosis of hematological diseases, referred to as hematopathologists. Hematologists and hematopathologists generally work in conjunction to formulate a diagnosis and deliver the most appropriate therapy if needed. Hematology is a distinct subspecialty of internal medicine, separate from but overlapping with the subspecialty of medical oncology. Hematologists may specialize further or have special interests, for example in:
treating bleeding disorders such as hemophilia and idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura treating hematological malignacies such as lymphoma and leukemia treating hemoglobinopathies in the science of blood transfusion and the work of a blood bank in bone marrow and stem cell transplantation
only some blood disorders can be cured. (Hematology comes from the Greek words (haima) meaning "blood" and (logos), a root commonly employed to denote a field of study.)
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1 Common basic clinical hematology tests 2 Hematology as basic medical science 3 Treatments 4 Alphabetical lists 5 External links
Blood Venous blood Venipuncture Hematopoiesis Blood tests Cord blood Red blood cells o Erythropoiesis o Erythropoietin o Iron metabolism o Hemoglobin o Glycolysis o Pentose phosphate pathway Reticuloendothelial system o Bone marrow o Spleen o Liver Lymphatic system Blood transfusion o Blood plasma o Blood bank o Blood donors o Blood groups Hemostasis o Coagulation
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Anemias (lack of red blood cells or hemoglobin) Hematological malignancies Coagulopathies (disorders of bleeding and coagulation)
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Treatments include:
Diet advice Oral medication - tablets or liquid medicines Anticoagulation therapy Intramuscular injections (for example, Vitamin B12 injections) Blood transfusion (for anemia) Venesection also known as therepeutic phlebotomy (for iron overload or polycythemia) Bone marrow transplant (for example, for leukemia) All kinds of anti-cancer chemotherapy Radiotherapy (for example, for cancer)
American Society of Hematology Asia-Pacific Journal of Cancer Therapeutics APJCT Major milestones in history of hematology (PDF) Multilingual index American Journal of Hematology / Oncology [show]
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Pathology: hematology hematologic diseases of RBCs and megakaryocytes / MEP (D50-69,74, 280-287)
Polycythemia Polycythemia vera
Micro-: Iron deficiency anemia (PlummerVinson syndrome) Nutritional Macro-: Megaloblastic anemia (Pernicious anemia) enzymopathy: G6PD glycolysis (PK, TI, HK) hemoglobinopathy: Thalassemia (alpha, beta, delta) Sickle-cell disease/trait HPFH Hereditary membrane: Hereditary spherocytosis (Minkowski-Chauffard syndrome) Hereditary elliptocytosis (Ovalocytosis) Hereditary stomatocytosis Autoimmune (WAHA, CAD, PCH) membrane (PNH) Acquired MAHA TM (HUS) Drug-induced autoimmune Drug-induced nonautoimmune Hemolytic disease of the newborn Aplastic (mostly Normo-) Hereditary: Fanconi anemia DiamondBlackfan anemia Acquired: PRCA Sideroblastic anemia Myelophthisic
MCV (Normocytic, Microcytic, Blood tests Macrocytic) MCHC (Normochromic, Hypochromic) Other Methemoglobinemia Sulfhemoglobinemia Reticulocytopenia
primary: Antithrombin III deficiency Protein C deficiency/Activated protein C resistance/Protein S deficiency/Factor Hypercoagulability V Leiden Hyperprothrombinemia acquired: DIC (Congenital afibrinogenemia, Purpura fulminans) autoimmune (Antiphospholipid) Nonthrombocytopenic purpura: Henoch-Schnlein purpura Thrombocytopenia Thrombocytopenic purpura: ITP (Evans syndrome) TM (TTP) and purpura Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia May-Hegglin anomaly adhesion (Bernard-Soulier syndrome) aggregation (Glanzmann's Platelet function thrombasthenia) platelet storage pool deficiency (HermanskyPudlak syndrome, Gray platelet syndrome) Clotting factor Hemophilia (A/VIII, B/IX, C/XI) Von Willebrand disease Hypoprothrombinemia/II XIII
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