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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

▲ USD $283,000 (M.D.)

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:
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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 ἁίμα (haima) meaning "blood" and λόγος (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

[edit] Common basic clinical hematology tests
In a clinical laboratory the hematology department performs numerous different tests on blood. The most commonly performed test is the complete blood count (CBC) also called full blood count (FBC). Studies of blood coagulation is a sub-specialty of hematology; basic general coagulation tests are the prothrombin time (PT) and partial thromboplastin time (PTT). Another common hematology test in the erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR). In a blood bank the Coombs test is the most commonly performed test.[citation needed]

[edit] Hematology as basic medical science
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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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Vitamin K Complement system o Immunoglobulins

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abnormality of the hemoglobin molecule or of the rate of hemoglobin synthesis)
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Anemias (lack of red blood cells or hemoglobin) Hematological malignancies Coagulopathies (disorders of bleeding and coagulation)

[edit] Treatments
Treatments include:
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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)

[edit] Alphabetical lists
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Hematologists Blood disorders Hematology topics

[edit] External links
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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

Hemolytic (mostly Normo-) Anemia ↓

MCV (Normocytic, Microcytic, Blood tests Macrocytic) · MCHC (Normochromic, Hypochromic) Other ↑ Methemoglobinemia · Sulfhemoglobinemia · Reticulocytopenia

Thrombocytosis Essential thrombocytosis

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-Schönlein 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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