Practical Hemostasis and Thrombosis

✍ Scribed by Nigel Key, Michael Makris, Denise O'Shaughnessy, David Lillicrap

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 336
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This practical guide provides all the information necessary to understand the clotting mechanisms, as well as how to prevent, diagnose, and treat bleeding and clotting disorders. Practical Hemostasis and Thrombosis has been updated to reflect all the important advances made since the first edition. It includes an in-depth description of platelet abnormalities and disseminated intravascular coagulation, as well as covering the laboratory and molecular biological tests needed for the diagnosis of bleeding and clotting disorders.

Clinicians will find useful advice for everyday questions in each specialty area as the book describes hemorrhagic and thrombotic problems in cardiology, neurology, hepatology, nephrology, oncology, obstetrics, pediatrics, intensive care and transfusion medicine.

An invaluable resource for all hematologists, trainee hematologists preparing for examinations and clinicians this book should be kept close at hand for frequent consultation

✦ Table of Contents

Practical Hemostasis and Thrombosis......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Contributors......Page 9
Foreword......Page 13
1 Basic principles underlying coagulation......Page 17
2 Laboratory tests of hemostasis......Page 23
3 Laboratory evaluation and thrombophilia......Page 33
4 Molecular diagnostic approaches to hemostasis......Page 41
5 Tests of platelet function......Page 53
6 Evaluation of the bleeding patient......Page 64
7 Hemophilia A and B......Page 77
8 Von Willebrand disease......Page 89
9 The rarer inherited coagulation disorders......Page 104
10 Quantitative platelet disorders......Page 112
11 Qualitative platelet disorders......Page 139
12 Disseminated intravascular coagulation and other microangiopathies......Page 147
13 Venous thromboembolism......Page 159
14 Myeloproliferative neoplasms: Essential thrombocythemia, polycythemia vera, and primary myelofibrosis......Page 171
15 Arterial thrombosis......Page 181
16 Anticoagulation......Page 188
17 Antiphospholipid syndrome......Page 201
18 Cardiology......Page 209
19 Cardiothoracic surgery......Page 218
20 Neurology......Page 233
21 Hepatology......Page 242
22 Nephrology......Page 251
23 Oncology......Page 259
24 Obstetrics, contraception, and estrogen replacement......Page 271
25 Pediatrics......Page 282
26 Intensive and critical care......Page 295
27 Transfusion......Page 311
Appendix 1 Reference ranges......Page 321
Index......Page 329
Colour plate section follows page 114
......Page 131