Full Description
Clinical Laboratory Hematology, Third Edition, continues its stellar reputation as a comprehensive, yet reader-friendly, resource for all levels of hematology laboratory education, offering a visually engaging design and effective learning features that help students master the content. The text's teaching and learning package includes an Instructor's Manual, PowerPoint presentation slides, a test bank, image bank, and a companion website with resources for both instructor and students.
Teaching and Learning Experience:
Designed for both MLT and MLS students, the text provides a beneficial and economical resource for laboratory science programs that offer both levels of instruction and includes a wealth of learning features.
Each chapter features a consistent format with a striking visual design, making it easy for the reader to find information on each topic.
Complemented by a variety of ancillary materials designed to help instructors be more efficient and effective and students more successful.
Contents
ONE: INTRODUCTION TO HEMATOLOGY
1. Introduction
2. Cellular Homeostasis
3. Structure and Function of Hematopoietic Organs
TWO: BLOOD CELL PRODUCTION AND FUNCTION
4. Hematopoiesis
5. The erythrocyte
6. Hemoglobin
7. The leukocyte: Granulocytes and Monocytes
8. The leukocyte: Lymphocytes
9. The Platelet
THREE: LABORATORY EXAMINATION OF BLOOD CELLS
10. The Complete Blood Count and Peripheral Blood Smear
FOUR: THE ANEMIAS
11. Introduction to anemia
12. Anemias of disordered iron metabolism and heme synthesis
13. Hemoglobinopathies: qualitative defects
14. Thalassemia
15. Megaloblastic and nonmegaloblastic anemias
16. Hypoproliferative anemias
17. Hemolytic anemia: membrane defects
18. Hemolytic anemia: enzyme defects
19. Hemolytic anemia: immune defects
20. Hemolytic anemia: nonimmune defects
FIVE: NONMALIGNANT DISORDERS OF LEUKOCYTES
21. Nonmalignant granulocytic and monocytic disorders
22. Nonmalignant lymphocytic disorders
SIX: NEOPLASTIC HEMATOLOGIC DISORDERS
23. Introduction to hematopoietic neoplasms
24. Myeloproliferative neoplasms
25. Myelodysplastic syndromes
26. Acute myeloid leukemia
27. Acute lymphocytic leukemia
28. Lymphoid malignancies:chronic lymphoid leukemias, lymphoma and plasma cell neoplasms
29. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
SEVEN: BODY FLUIDS
30. Body fluids
EIGHT: HEMOSTASIS
31. Primary hemostasis
32. Secondary hemostasis
33. Disorders of primary hemostasis
34. Disorders of secondary hemostasis
35. Thromobophilia
