PRACTICAL HEMOSTASIS AND THROMBOSIS

Description

The second edition of this popular book is a comprehensive yet concise and practical guide to the full range of clotting and bleeding disorders encountered in clinical practice. It provides advice to guide clinicians through the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of thrombotic and haemostatic disorders and highlights controversial issues surrounding the subject. Each chapter follows a standard template supplemented with a mini-contents list, key points, further reading and a summary box.

Table of Contents

Part 1: The laboratory interface.

1. Basic principles underlying the coagulation system.
2. Laboratory tests of hemostasis.
3. Molecular diagnostic approaches to hemostasis.
4. Tests of platelet function.

Part 2 The practice of clinical hemostasis and.

5. Hemophilia A and B.
6. Von Willebrand disease Castaman.
7. The rarer inherited coagulation disorders.
8. Quantitative platelet disorders.
9. Qualitative platelet disorders.
10. Disseminated intravascular coagulation and other microangiopathies.
11. Venous thromboembolism.
12. Arterial thrombosis.
13. Anticoagulation.
14. Antiphospholipid syndrome.

Part 3 The clinical interface.

15. Obstetrics.
16. Pediatrics.
17. Intensive/critical care.
18. Cardiothoracic surgery and cardiovascular disease.
19. Hepatology.
20. Oncology.
21. Transfusion.
22. Renal disease.
23. Neurological disease.

Appendices.

1. Normal ranges.
2. Useful websites.

Author Information

• Nigel Key, Department of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
• Michael Makris, Senior Lecturer in Haematology, Department of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
• Denise O'Shaugnessy, formerly Director, Haematology Laboratory, School of Medicine, Health and Biological Sciences; Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton and Blood Policy Group, Department of Health, UK
• David Lillicrap, Professor of Hematology, Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Richardson Laboratory, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.