A Beginner's Guide to Blood Cells

Description

The third edition of this popular pocket book, A Beginner’s Guide to Blood Cells written by Professor Barbara Bain, provides a concise introduction to normal and abnormal blood cells and blood counts for trainees in haematology.

• Includes a brand new chapter on emergency morphology, designed to make the clinical significance and urgency of certain laboratory findings clear for biomedical scientists and to assist trainee haematologists in the recognition of major clinically important abnormalities

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  Contains exceptional full colour images throughout

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  Introduces important basic concepts of hematology, setting haematological findings in a clinical context

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  Provides a fully updated self-assessment section

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  An essential resource for trainee haematologists, biomedical scientists, and biomedical science and medical students

Contents

Preface, vii Abbreviations, ix

1 The Blood Film and Count x

The blood film

The blood count

Normal ranges

How to examine a blood film

Interpreting a blood film

2 Assessing Red Cells xx

Number and distribution

Size – microcytosis and macrocytosis

Shape

Colour ? hypochromia, hyperchromia, anisochromasia, polychromasia Inclusions ? Pappenheimer bodies, basophilic stippling, Howell?Jolly bodies, parasites

The blood count in assessing red cells

3 Assessing White Cells and Platelets xx

White cell and platelet numbers

Neutrophil morphology

Lymphocyte morphology

Monocyte, eosinophil and basophil morphology

Platelet morphology

4 Haematological Findings in Health and Disease xx

The blood count and film in health

Abnormalities of red cells

Polycythaemia

Anaemia

Abnormalities of white cells

Neutrophil leucocytosis

Lymphocytosis and abnormal lymphoid cells

5 Emergency morphology xx

The relevance of the blood count and blood film in acute illness

Thrombocytopenia

Thrombotic microangiopathy and microangiopathic haemolytic anaemia

Other acute anaemia

Kidney injury and disease

Acute hepatic damage and liver failure

Acute leukaemia

Bacterial infection and other causes of leucocytosis

Eosinophilia

Lymphocytosis

Malaria

Neutropenia

Pancytopenia and leucoerythroblastic blood films

6 Self-assessment xx

Index 

Author Information

Professor Barbara Bain, MB BS, FRACP, FRCPath
Professor of Diagnostic Haematology, St Mary's Hospital Campus, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, Consultant Haematologist, St Mary's Hospital, London, UK