Postgraduate Haematology

Preface to the first edition
Preface to the fourth edition
List of contributors
1 The regulation of haemopoietic cell production 1
2 Erythropoiesis 13
3 Iron 23
4 Megaloblastic anaemia 47
5 Aplastic anaemia and other types of bone marrow failure 68
6 Genetic disorders of haemoglobin 91
7 Inherited haemolytic anaemias 120
8 Acquired haemolytic anaemias 144
9 Immunohaematology: introduction 164
10 Antigens in human blood 182
11 Clinical blood transfusion 215
12 Phagocytes 235
13 Normal lymphocytes and non-neoplastic lymphocyte disorders
267
14 The haematological manifestations of HIV disease 309
15 The spleen 323
16 Cytogenetics 336
17 The molecular basis of leukaemia and lymphoma 354
18 Acute leukaemia 373
19 Chronic lymphoid leukaemias 405
20 Chronic myeloid leukaemia 434
21 The myelodysplastic syndromes 445
22 Myelomatosis (multiple myeloma) 462
23 Malignant lymphomas 479
24 Non-leukaemic myeloproliferative disorders 505
25 Bone marrow transplantation 530
26 Normal haemostasis 550
27 Inherited platelet disorders 581
28 The immune thrombocytopenias 597
29 Inherited bleeding disorders 612
30 Acquired coagulation, non-immune platelet disorders and
vascular purpuras 636
31 Pathogenesis of thrombosis: antithrombotic therapy 653
32 Haematological aspects of systemic disease 675
33 Laboratory practice 694
Index 706