Table of Contents:
  • Hematopoiesis: an introduction
  • Failure of red cell production
  • Inherited bone marrow failure syndromes
  • Acquired aplastic anemia
  • Disorders of iron metabolism: iron deficiency, iron overload and the sideroblastic anemias
  • Megaloblastic anemia and disorders of cobalamin and folate metabolism
  • Nonimmune neonatal anemias
  • Immune hemolytic anemias
  • Disorders of erythrocyte metabolism including porphyria
  • Sickle cell disease
  • Hemoglobin variants and the rarer hemoglobin disorders
  • Red cell membrane abnormalities
  • Thalassemias
  • Disorders of granulopoiesis and granulocyte function
  • Histiocytic disorders
  • Acute myeloid leukemia
  • Chronic myeloid leukemia
  • Myelodysplatic syndromes
  • Primary and acquired immunodeficiency
  • Clinical features and therapy of lymphoblastic leukemia
  • Lymphomas
  • Inherited and congenital thrombocytopenia
  • Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura
  • Thrombocytosis
  • Platelet function disorders
  • Hemophilia A and B
  • von Wilebrand disease
  • Rare congenital hemorrhage disorders
  • Acquired disorders of hemostasis
  • Bleeding in the neonate
  • Thromboembolic complications in children
  • Blood components and fractionated plasma products: preparation, indications and administration
  • Hazards of transfusion
  • Management of infection in children with bone marrow failure
  • Hematologic effects of systemic disease and nonhematopoietic tumors
  • Lysosomal storage disorders
  • Reference values.