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Haematology
Haematology is a branch of medicine and a subspecialty of internal medicine. It focuses on the study, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases that can cause abnormalities in the blood and its various components, which include the blood cells, blood proteins, hemoglobin, platelets, and blood vessels, as well as the organs that are responsible for producing blood, namely the bone marrow and the spleen.
Doctors who specialize in this branch of medicine are called haematologists, who have received two to three years of specialized training in haematology after they completed their medical degree, internship, and residency.
The routine responsibilities of a haematologist include:
- Treating patients with haematological diseases
- Analyzing blood samples in the haematology laboratory, which involves viewing blood films and bone marrow slides
- Interpreting the results of blood tests and blood clotting tests
- Providing a diagnosis to patients showing symptoms of blood disorders
- Determining the specific causes of blood disorders
- Monitoring patients’ progress while undergoing treatment
- Supervising blood banks
- Conducting research
In treating patients, haematologist can:
- Perform blood transfusions
- Add blood components
- Reduce or remove blood components
- Prescribe immunosuppressive drugs
- Carry out chemotherapy
- Perform stem cell transplantation
- Perform bone marrow transplantation
- Prescribe growth factor drugs
- Anemia – This is one of the most common types of blood disorders that comes in over 400 different types. Generally, anemia occurs when the blood lacks healthy red blood cells or its main component, hemoglobin. Some of the most common presentations of the disease include:
- Sickle cell anemia, or when the red blood cells are harder and stickier than normal
- Iron deficiency anemia
- Vitamin deficiency anemia
- Anemia due to trauma i, or when the condition occurs due to excessive blood loss
- Thalassemia, or when red blood cells do not mature properly
- Hemolytic anemia, or when the body produces red blood cells that are too fragile and ruptures prematurely
- Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT), or when the blood vessels are not fully developed
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