Everything you need to know about red cell disorders, from basic science to clinical application

Williams Hematology: The Red Cell and Its Diseases provides clinicians with a scientific framework for understanding, diagnosing and managing acute, chronic, inherited and acquired red cell disorders. Presented in a carefully organized format, the book includes the classification, etiology and pathogenesis, clinical and laboratory features, differential diagnosis, treatment, management, and definitive and supportive care of diseases of red cells.

A text on red cell biology and diseases has been long overdue. This prompted the editors to prepare a “breakaway” text focused on the red cell, based on the relevant chapters in Williams Hematology Tenth Edition. Approximately three years have passed since these chapters were originally penned. The editors asked the authors of these chapters to revise and update them, which they have done graciously and expeditiously. We now offer to the reader a comprehensive set of 30 chapters on red cell disorders written by leading authorities in the field.

This comprehensive, yet readable resource covers:

• Structure and physiology of the red cell
• Classification of red cell diseases
• Diseases of red cell production
• Anemias resulting principally from inherited disorders
• Anemia as a result of exogenous factors
• Polyclonal erythrocytosis
• Red cell transfusion