Anemias and Other Red Cell Disorders is the first resource to provide a practical diagnostic/treatment framework for identifying and successfully managing acute, congenital, and chronic anemias, and other red blood cell disorders. With its broad scope, easy-to-navigate format, and ready-to-apply diagnostic and treatment strategies, this is the most accessible--and essential--guide to anemias and related diseases ever published. Features include: a complete top-to-bottom review of anemias, written with the non-specialist in mind; logical chapter organization based on the clinical features that prompt the initial encounter between doctor and patient; Discussions of anemias related to physiological conditions such as anemia in age and pregnancy, or due to endocrine and metabolic conditions-categories that are commonly encountered in clinical practice but rarely addressed in traditional hematology texts; a unified patient management strategy in each consistently formatted chapter; Key Diagnostic Features and Key Management Issues tables within each chapter; practical insights that help you review pathologic material to determine the presence and severity of the disease; coverage of treatment modalities at the forefront of clinical practice, including chemotherapy, monoclonal antibodies, stem and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

Principles of anemia evaluation -- Anemia and age -- Anemia and ethnicity -- Anemia and pregnancy -- Cancer and anemia -- Malaria and the red cell -- Iron deficiency -- Nutritional anemias -- Anemia and endocrine hormones -- Pediatric bone marrow failure syndromes -- Acquired bone marrow failure syndromes -- The myelodysplastic syndromes -- Sickle cell disease -- Thalassemia -- G6PD deficiency -- Pyruvate kinase deficiency -- Anemia associated with erythrocyte membrane abnormalities -- Erythroblastosis fetalis (immune hemolytic disease of the newborn) -- Immune hemolytic anemia.