Main description:

Textbook of Pediatric Hematology & Hemato-Oncology is a highly illustrated, comprehensive guide to diseases and cancers of the blood in paediatrics.

Fifty chapters by internationally recognised paediatric haematologists and haemato-oncologists are grouped into seven sections, covering physiology, neonatal haematology, red blood cell and white blood cell disorders, bleeding disorders, transfusion medicine, haemato-oncology and other general topics.

The haemato-oncology section covers cancers of the blood and includes lymphoblastic leukaemia, myeloid leukaemia (chronic and acute), juvenile myelomonocytic leukaemia, and bone marrow transplantation. The final 'general' section features discussion on gene therapy, monoclonal antibodies and biological response modifiers.

Each chapter is peer-reviewed, with a list of references ensuring authoritative content, and the book is further enhanced by nearly 200 images and illustrations. Textbook of Pediatric Hematology & Hemato-Oncology is an indispensable resource for paediatricians, practitioners and trainees.

Key Points

Comprehensive guide to paediatric diseases and cancers of the blood
50 peer reviewed chapters with references
198 images and illustrations

Contents:

SECTION-1 PHYSIOLOGY

1. Ontogeny of Erythropoiesis

2. Physiology of Blood Coagulation

3. Structure, Function and Physiology of Platelets

SECTION-2 NEONATAL HEMATOLOGY

4. Variation in the RBC Parameters in the Newborn

5. Physiological Anemia of Newborn, Anemia of Prematurity and Role of Erythropoietin in the Management

6. Effect of Maternal Iron Status on Placenta, Fetus and Newborn

7. Developmental Aspects of Hemostasis in the Fetus and Newborn

8. Anemia in the Newborn

9. Polycythemia and Hyperviscosity Syndrome

10. Vitamin K Deficiency: Bleeding in Newborns

11. Bleeding Neonate: Approach and Management

12. Approach to Neonatal Thrombocytopenia

SECTION-3 RBC and WBC DISORDER

13. Introduction and Classification of Anemias in Children

14. Nutritional Anemia in Infancy, Childhood and Adolescents

15. Megaloblastic Anemia

16. Anemia of Chronic Disease

17. Thalassemia Syndromes

18. Sickle Cell Anemia in Children

19. Antenatal Diagnosis of Hemoglobinopathies

20. Red Cell Membrane Disorders (spherocytosis, elliptocytosis, stomatocytosis)

21. Red Cell Enzymopathy

22. Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia

23. Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria

24. Diagnosis and Management of Acquired Aplastic Anemia in Children

25. Inherited Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes

26. Benign Disorders of Neutrophils

SECTION-4 BLEEDING DISORDERS

27. Approach to a Bleeding Child

28. Diagnosis and Management of Hemophilia Patients

29. Von Willebrand Disease and the Other Rare Coagulation Disorders

30. Acquired Inhibitors of Coagulation

31. Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura - Diagnosis and Management

32. Platelet Function Disorders

33. Pediatric Thrombosis

34. Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation in Neonates

SECTION-5 TRANSFUSION MEDICINE

35. Blood Components in Pediatric Practice

36. Nucleic Acid Amplification Testing

37. Transfusion Transmitted Infections

38. Noninfectious Hazards of Blood Transfusion

SECTION-6 HEMATO-ONCOLOGY

39. Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

40. Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia

41. Chronic Myeloid Leukemia

42. Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia

43. Pediatric Hodgkin Lymphoma

44. Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma in Children and Adolescents

45. Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis

46. Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis: Revisited

47. Bone Marrow Transplantation

SECTION-7 GENERAL

48. Gene Therapy

49. Monoclonal Antibodies in Pediatric Hematology and Oncology

50. Biological Response Modifiers