Practical Hemostasis and Thrombosis (eBook)

Dr Denise O'Shaughnessy, Director, Haematology Laboratory,School of Medicine, Health and Biological Sciences, SouthamptonUniversity Hospitals NHS Trust, Southampton General Hospital,Southampton, UK Dr Michael Makris, Senior Lecturer in Haematology, Dept ofMedicine and Pharmacology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield,UK Dr David P. Lillicrap, Professor of Hematology, RichardsonLaboratories, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada

List of Contributors..

Part 1: The Laboratory Interface.

1. Basic principles underlying the coagulation system(O'Connell).

2. Laboratory tests of hemostasis (Kitchen and Makris).

3. Molecular diagnostic approaches to hemostasis (James andLillicrap).

4. Tests of platelet function (Harrison).

Part 2: The Practice of Clinical Hemostasis andThrombosis.

5. Hemophilia A and B (Maclean and Makris).

6. Von Willebrand disease (Castaman, Tosetto andRodeghiero).

7. The rarer inherited coagulation disorders (Bolton-Maggs andWilde).

8. Quantitative platelet disorders (Kahr and Blanchette).

9. Qualitative platelet disorders (Cattaneo).

10. Disseminated intravascular coagulation and othermicroangiopathies (Kasthuri and Key).

11. Venous thromboembolism (Linkins and Kearon).

12. Arterial thrombosis (Lowe and Tait).

13. Anticoagulation (Palareti and Cosmi).

14. Antiphospholipid syndrome (Watson).

Part 3: The Clinical Interface.

15. Obstetrics (Walker).

16. Pediatrics (Bauman and Massiocotte).

17. Intensive/critical care (Hunt and Stuart-Smith).

18. Cardiothoracic surgery (O'Shaughnessy and von Kier).

19. Hepatology (Patel and Arya).

20. Oncology (Falana and Marchetti).

21. Transfusion (Copplestone).

Appendices.

1. Normal ranges (Kitchen and Makris).

2. Useful Websites (Makris).

Index.

"...comprehensive rather than exhaustive, and the integration ofclinical and laboratory aspects of the investigation of haemostaticdisease will make this a valuable tool for both the clinician andscientist alike."
British Journal of Biomedical Science