| Info: List of Blood Diseases and Disorders Haematology is the branch of internal medicine, physiology, pathology, clinical laboratory work, and paediatrics that is concerned with the study of blood, the blood-forming organs, and blood diseases. Haematology includes the study of aetiology, diagnosis, treatment, prognosis, and prevention of blood diseases. The laboratory work that goes into the study of blood is frequently performed by a medical technologist. Haematologist 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, haemoglobin, blood proteins, the mechanism of coagulation, etc. Physicians specialized in haematology are known as haematologists. Their routine work mainly includes the care and treatment of patients with haematological diseases, although some may also work at the haematology laboratory viewing blood films and bone marrow slides under the microscope, interpreting various haematological test results. In some institutions, haematologists also manage the haematology laboratory. Physicians who work in haematology laboratories, and most commonly manage them, are pathologists specialized in the diagnosis of haematological diseases, referred to as hematopathologists. Haematologists and hematopathologists generally work in conjunction to formulate a diagnosis and deliver the most appropriate therapy if needed. Haematology is a distinct subspecialty of internal medicine, separate from but overlapping with the subspecialty of medical oncology. Haematologists may specialize further or have special interests, for example in:
only some blood disorders can be cured. A Accelerated phase chronic myelogenous leukaemia Acute myeloblastic leukaemia with maturation Acute myeloid dendritic cell leukaemia Adult T-cell leukaemia/lymphoma Anaplastic large-cell lymphoma Angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma B B-cell prolymphocytic leukaemia B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukaemia C Chromosome 5q deletion syndrome Chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia Chronic neutrophilic leukaemia Congenital amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia Congenital dyserythropoietic anaemia Contaminated haemophilia blood products D Drug-induced autoimmune haemolytic anaemia Drug-induced nonautoimmune haemolytic anaemia E Enteropathy-associated T-cell lymphoma F G Galactorrhea Hyperprolactinemia H Haemolytic disease of the newborn (ABO) Haemolytic disease of the newborn (anti-Kell) Haemolytic disease of the newborn (anti-Rhc) Haemolytic disease of the newborn (anti-RhE) Haemolytic disease of the newborn Haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis I Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura J Juvenile myelomonocytic leukaemia K L M Minimally differentiated acute myeloblastic leukaemia Monoclonal B-cell lymphocytosis Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance Myomatous erythrocytosis syndrome N Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia Nodular lymphocyte predominant Hodgkin's lymphoma P Precursor B-cell lymphoblastic leukaemia Q R S Splenic marginal zone lymphoma T T-cell prolymphocytic leukaemia Large granular lymphocytic leukaemia V W Waldenström's macroglobulinemia |
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