Table of 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