Hematology /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Jackson Hole, Wyo. :
Teton NewMedia,
[2001]
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| Series: | Quick look series in veterinary medicine.
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Table of Contents:
- Components of blood
- Hematopoiesis
- Sec. I. Red blood cells
- Production and differentiation
- Reticulocytes
- Structure and metabolism
- Hemoglobin and oxygen transport
- Destruction of red cells
- Evaluation of erythrocytes
- Anemia
- Acute blood loss
- Iron metabolism
- Iron deficiency anemia
- Hemolytic anemia
- Immune-mediated hemolysis
- Blood group antigens and transfusions
- Hemolytic disease of the newborn
- Red blood cell substitutes
- Oxidative injury to red cells
- Infections causing hemolysis
- Other causes of hemolysis
- Nonregenerative anemia
- Anemia of chronic disease / anemia of inflammatory disease
- Anemia secondary to renal or endocrine disease
- Folate and cobalamin dificiencies
- Infectious causes of nonregenerative anemia
- Drugs, toxins, and metabolic causes of nonregenerative anemia
- Bone marrow failure
- Polycythemia
- Sec. II. White blood cells
- Evaluation
- Granulopoiesis (neutrophil production)
- Neutrophil structure and function
- Patterns of change in neutrophil numbers
- Monocytes and macrophages
- Eosinophils
- Basophils and mast cells
- Lymphocytes
- Patterns of change in lymphocyte numbers
- Lymph nodes
- Thymus
- Spleen
- Sec. III. Platelets and coagulation
- Endothelial cells
- Platelets
- Coagulation
- Natural anticoagulant systems
- Laboratory evaluation of hemostasis
- Evaluation of the bleeding patient
- Quantitative platelet disorders
- Qualitative (functional) platelet disorders
- Inherited clotting factor disorders
- Acquired coagulation disorders
- Thrombosis
- Sec. IV. Neoplasia
- Hematopoietic malignancy
- Lymphoma
- Acute leukemia
- Chronic leukemia
- Plasma cell neoplasms
- Other hematopoietic malignancies
- Reference values for various species