Blood Diseases
Blood diseases
affect the production of
blood
and its components, such as
blood cells
,
hemoglobin
,
blood proteins
, the mechanism of
coagulation
, etc. The study of
etiology
,
diagnosis
,
treatment
,
prognosis
, and
prevention
of blood diseases is the domain of
hematology
and
hemotherapy
. Medical specialists in this domain are called
hematologists
.
Classification of diseases
Hemoglobinopaties
Sickle cell disease
Thalassemia
Methemoglobinemia
Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria
Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency
(G6PD)
Decreased numbers of cells
Anemias
(decrease in the number of
erythrocytes
)
Iron deficiency anemia
(caused by deficiency of production of hemoglobin)
Aplastic anemia
Pernicious anemia
Megaloblastic anemia
- Vitamin B
12
or
folate
deficiency
Hemolytic anemia
(caused by destruction of red cells)
Fanconi anemia
Microangiopathic hemolytic anemia
Myelodysplastic syndrome
Hereditary elliptocytosis
Myelofibrosis
Neutropenia
(decrease in the number of
neutrophils
)
Agranulocytosis
Spherocytosis
Glanzmann's thrombasthenia
Thrombocytopenia
(decrease in the number of
platelets
)
Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura
(ITP)
Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
(TTP)
Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia
(HIT)
Increased numbers of cells
Polycythemia vera
(increase in the number of cells in general)
Leukocytosis
(increase in the number of
white blood cells
)
Thrombocytosis
(increase in the number of
platelets
)
Myeloproliferative disorder
Hematological malignancies
Lymphomas
Hodgkin's disease
Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
Burkitt's lymphoma
Anaplastic large cell lymphoma
Myelomas
Multiple myeloma
Leukemias
Acute lymphocytic leukemia
(ALL)
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia
(CLL)
Acute myelogenous leukemia
(AML)
Chronic myelogenous leukemia
(CML)
Hairy cell leukemia
Coagulopathies
Disorders of clotting proteins
Hemophilia
Hemophilia A
Hemophilia B
(a.k.a.
Christmas disease
Hemophilia C
Von Willebrand disease
Disseminated intravascular coagulation
Protein S deficiency
Antiphospholipid syndrome
Rh disease
Disorders of platelets
Glanzmann's thrombasthenia
Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome
Other diseases that mainly affect blood cells
Infectious mononucleosis
AIDS
Malaria
Related topics
Blood
Hematology
Blood tests
Blood transfusion
Bone marrow transplantation
List of hematologists
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