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The definitive introductory textbook on haematology, covering basic science, diagnostic testing, clinical features, and patient management
Hoffbrand’s Essential Haematology has helped medical students and trainee physicians understand the core principles of clinical and laboratory haematology for more than four decades. Original contributions by leading experts provide authoritative coverage of clinical and laboratory features and management within haematology, including the haematological aspects of systemic diseases, pregnancy, and the neonate. Hundreds of high-quality colour images illustrate various anaemias and white cell disorders, leukaemias, lymphomas and myeloma, bleeding and thrombotic disorders, and other blood diseases.
Now in its ninth edition, this classic textbook incorporates current knowledge of the pathogenesis of blood diseases, the 5th WHO (2022) classification of haematological neoplasms, the detection of minimal residual disease, advances in the treatment of benign and neoplastic blood diseases. New sections focus on the haematological consequences of COVID-19 infection and vaccine -induced immune thrombotic thrombocy-topenia (VITT). Additional and expanded chapters describe non-Hodgkin lymphomas, amyloid, and haemophilia.
Supported by a companion website with hundreds of MCQs and PowerPoint slides, Hoffbrand’s Essential Haematology, Ninth Edition, remains an indispensable resource for trainee haematologists and physicians.
Table of Contents
Preface to the Ninth Edition iv
About the Companion Website v
1 Haemopoiesis 1
2 Erythropoiesis and general aspects of anaemia 11
3 Hypochromic anaemias 27
4 Iron overload 42
5 Megaloblastic anaemias and other macrocytic anaemias 50
6 Haemolytic anaemias 65
7 Genetic disorders of haemoglobin 79
8 The white cells, part 1: granulocytes, monocytes and their benign disorders 99
9 The white cells, part 2: lymphocytes and their benign disorders 116
10 The spleen 131
11 The aetiology and genetics of haematological neoplasia 138
12 Management of haematological malignancy 155
13 Acute myeloid leukaemia 168
14 Chronic myeloid leukaemia 185
15 Myeloproliferative neoplasms 194
16 Myelodysplastic neoplasms 210
17 Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia 222
18 The chronic lymphocytic leukaemias 236
19 Hodgkin lymphoma 246
20 Non-Hodgkin lymphomas 1: General aspects 259
21 Non-Hodgkin lymphomas 2: Individual diseases 270
22 Multiple myeloma and related plasma cell neoplasms 287
23 Amyloid 302
24 Aplastic anaemia and bone marrow failure syndromes 309
25 Haemopoietic stem cell transplantation 320
26 Platelets, coagulation and normal haemostasis 337
27 Bleeding disorders caused by platelet and vascular abnormalities 355
28 Hereditary coagulation disorders 370
29 Acquired coagulation disorders and thrombotic microangiopathies 385
30 Thrombosis 1: Pathogenesis and diagnosis 399
31 Thrombosis 2: Treatment 417
32 Haematological changes in systemic diseases 437
33 Blood transfusion 451
34 Pregnancy and neonatal haematology 465
Appendix: 5th edition (2022) of the World Health Organization Classification of Haematolymphoid Tumours 475
Index 478
