Beschreibung
Provides a comprehensive yet concise and practical guide to the full range of clotting and bleeding disorders encountered in clinical practice.
Presented in three sections, this book informs and advises clinicians in all stages of diagnosis, management and prevention of thrombotic and hemostatic disorders.
Why Buy This Book?
Essential practical management for all those working in the field of haemostasis and thrombosis
A comprehensive yet concise and practical guide to the full range of clotting and bleeding disorders encountered in clinical practice.Advice to guide clinicians through the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of thrombotic and haemostatic disordersEach chapter to follow a standard template supplemented with a mini-contents list, key points, further reading and a summary boxHighlights controversial issues and provides advice for everyday questions
Autorenportrait
Dr Denise OShaughnessy, Director, Haematology Laboratory, School of Medicine, Health and Biological Sciences, Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK
Dr Michael Makris, Senior Lecturer in Haematology, Dept of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Dr David P. Lillicrap, Professor of Hematology, Richardson Laboratories, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
Inhalt
List of Contributors.
.Part 1: The Laboratory Interface.
1. Basic principles underlying the coagulation system (O'Connell).
2. Laboratory tests of hemostasis (Kitchen and Makris).
3. Molecular diagnostic approaches to hemostasis (James and Lillicrap).
4. Tests of platelet function (Harrison).
Part 2: The Practice of Clinical Hemostasis and Thrombosis.
5. Hemophilia A and B (Maclean and Makris).
6. Von Willebrand disease (Castaman, Tosetto and Rodeghiero).
7. The rarer inherited coagulation disorders (Bolton-Maggs and Wilde).
8. Quantitative platelet disorders (Kahr and Blanchette).
9. Qualitative platelet disorders (Cattaneo).
10. Disseminated intravascular coagulation and other microangiopathies (Kasthuri and Key).
11. Venous thromboembolism (Linkins and Kearon).
12. Arterial thrombosis (Lowe and Tait).
13. Anticoagulation (Palareti and Cosmi).
14. Antiphospholipid syndrome (Watson).
Part 3: The Clinical Interface.
15. Obstetrics (Walker).
16. Pediatrics (Bauman and Massiocotte).
17. Intensive/critical care (Hunt and Stuart-Smith).
18. Cardiothoracic surgery (O'Shaughnessy and von Kier).
19. Hepatology (Patel and Arya).
20. Oncology (Falana and Marchetti).
21. Transfusion (Copplestone).
Appendices.
1. Normal ranges (Kitchen and Makris).
2. Useful Websites (Makris).
Index.
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