The third edition of this popular pocket book, A Beginner’s Guide to Blood Cells written by Professor Barbara Bain, provides a concise introduction to normal and abnormal blood cells and blood counts for trainees in haematology. Includes a brand new chapter on emergency morphology, designed to make the clinical significance and urgency of certain laboratory findings clear for biomedical scientists and to assist trainee haematologists in the recognition of major clinically important abnormalitiesContains exceptional full colour images throughout Introduces important basic concepts of hematology, setting haematological findings in a clinical contextProvides a fully updated self-assessment sectionAn essential resource for trainee haematologists, biomedical scientists, and biomedical science and medical students
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The third edition of this popular pocket book, A Beginner s Guide to Blood Cells written by Professor Barbara Bain, provides a concise introduction to normal and abnormal blood cells and blood counts for trainees in haematology.
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Preface vii Abbreviations viii 1 The Blood Film and Count 1 Blood 1 The blood film 1 The blood count 17 Normal ranges 20 How to examine a blood film 22 2 Assessing Red Cells 29 Assessing red cell number and distribution (anaemia polycythaemia rouleaux formation red cell agglutination) 29 Assessing red cell size (microcytosis macrocytosis anisocytosis) 32 Assessing red cell shape (poikilocytosis) 32 Assessing red cell colour (hypochromia hyperchromia anisochromasia polychromasia) 32 Detecting red cell inclusions (Pappenheimer bodies basophilic stippling Howell–Jolly bodies) 41 The full blood count in red cell assessment 43 3 Assessing White Cells and Platelets 45 Assessing white cell and platelet numbers 45 Assessing neutrophil morphology 46 Assessing lymphocyte morphology 51 Assessing morphology of monocytes eosinophils and basophils 53 Assessing platelet morphology 53 4 Haematological Findings in Health and Disease 55 The blood film and count in healthy individuals 55 Abnormalities of red cells 56 Abnormalities of white cells 77 5 Emergency Morphology: The Relevance of the Full Blood Count and Blood Film in Acute Illness 97 Thrombocytopenia 97 Thrombotic microangiopathy and microangiopathic haemolytic anaemia 98 Other acute anaemia 100 Kidney injury and disease 105 Acute hepatic damage and liver failure 107 Acute leukaemia 109 Bacterial infection and other causes of leucocytosis 109 Eosinophilia 113 Lymphocytosis 115 Malaria 116 Neutropenia 119 Pancytopenia and leucoerythroblastic blood films 121 Neonatal emergencies 122 6 Self]assessment 125 Index 143
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The third edition of this popular pocket book, A Beginner's Guide to Blood Cells, written by Professor Barbara Bain, provides a concise introduction to normal and abnormal blood cells and blood counts for trainees in haematology. Now updated and expanded to include a brand new chapter on emergency morphology – designed to make the clinical significance and urgency of certain laboratory findings clear for biomedical scientists and to assist in the recognition of the major, clinically significant abnormalities all trainee haematologists must be familiar with before they go on call for laboratory haematology. This book: Contains exceptional full colour images throughoutIntroduces important basic concepts of haematology, setting haematological findings in a clinical contextProvides a fully updated self-assessment section in the final chapterOffers an essential resource for trainee haematologists, biomedical scientists, and biomedical science and medical students
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781119367734
Publisert
2017-05-19
Utgave
3. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Wiley-Blackwell
Vekt
227 gr
Høyde
213 mm
Bredde
81 mm
Dybde
8 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
160

Forfatter

Biographical note

PROFESSOR BARBARA BAIN, MB BS, FRACP, FRCPath, Professor of Diagnostic Haematology, St Mary's Hospital Campus, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, Consultant Haematologist, St Mary's Hospital, London, UK