Practical Hemostasis And Thrombosis

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Pub. Date: 2005-09-01
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

Provides a comprehensive yet concise and practical guide to the full range of clotting and bleeding disorders encountered in clinical practice.Presented in three sections, this book informs and advises clinicians in all stages of diagnosis, management and prevention of thrombotic and hemostatic disorders.Why Buy This Book?Essential practical management for all those working in the field of haemostasis and thrombosis A comprehensive yet concise and practical guide to the full range of clotting and bleeding disorders encountered in clinical practice. Advice to guide clinicians through the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of thrombotic and haemostatic disorders Each chapter to follow a standard template supplemented with a mini-contents list, key points, further reading and a summary box Highlights controversial issues and provides advice for everyday questions

Author Biography

Dr Denise O’Shaughnessy, Director, Haematology Laboratory, School of Medicine, Health and Biological Sciences, Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK

Dr Michael Makris, Senior Lecturer in Haematology, Dept of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

Dr David P. Lillicrap, Professor of Hematology, Richardson Laboratories, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
vi
Part 1 The laboratory interface
Basic principles underlying the coagulation system
3(5)
O'Connell
Laboratory tests of hemostasis
8(10)
Kitchen
Makris
Molecular diagnostic approaches to hemostasis
18(11)
James
Lillicrap
Tests of platelet function
29(12)
Harrison
Part 2 The practice of clinical hemostasis and thrombosis
Hemophilia A and B
41(10)
Maclean
Makris
Von Willebrand disease
51(11)
Castaman
Tosetto
Rodeghiero
The rarer inherited coagulation disorders
62(7)
Bolton-Maggs
Wilde
Quantitative platelet disorders
69(14)
Kahr
Blanchette
Qualitative platelet disorders
83(8)
Cattaneo
Disseminated intravascular coagulation and other microangiopathies
91(10)
Kasthuri
Key
Venous thromboembolism
101(13)
Linkins
Kearon
Arterial thrombosis
114(6)
Lowe
Tait
Anticoagulation
120(10)
Palareti
Cosmi
Antiphospholipid syndrome
130(9)
Watson
Part 3 The clinical interface
Obstetrics
139(10)
Walker
Pediatrics
149(9)
Bauman
Massicotte
Intensive/critical care
158(14)
Hunt
Stuart-Smith
Cardiothoracic surgery
172(10)
O'Shaughnessy
von Kier
Hepatology
182(8)
Patel
Arya
Oncology
190(11)
Falanga
Marchetti
Transfusion
201(15)
Copplestone
Appendices
1 Normal ranges
209(5)
Kitchen
Makris
2 Useful websites
214(2)
Makris
Index 216

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