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Acute leukaemia in adults
Suspect acute leukaemia in patients with anaemia, neutropenia, thrombocytopenia and associated sy...
Anaemia in children
Leukaemias and acute haemolytic crises should be readily identified as these conditions require i...
Assessment and treatment of a patient with bleeding diathesis
In primary care, the principal aim should be to identify patients whose bleeding diathesis could ...
Assessment of anaemia in adults
Anaemia is the most common blood disorder encountered in outpatient care, iron deficiency anaemia...
Blood transfusion: indications, administration and adverse reactions
Donated blood is not transfused to the recipient until it has been processed into its separate bl...
Bone marrow examination
Bone marrow examination is an easy and inexpensive outpatient examination. It is necessary for co...
Bruises and purpura in children
In a child with recurrent or prolonged bleedings, bleeding at several sites, or bleeding being no...
Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL)
Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia is a slowly progressing (chronic) malignant blood disease where mor...
Deep vein thrombosis
As many as half of all cases of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) develop without clinical symptoms, and...
Easy bruising, petechiae and ecchymoses
Everybody has occasional bruising after minor trauma or even without a noticed trauma at all. The...
Elevated ESR (hypersedimentation)
An erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) value is principally dependent on the concentration of pl...
Eosinophilia
Eosinophils normally account for 1–5% of leucocytes in peripheral blood in adults. The refe...
Erythrocytosis
Erythrocytosis refers to an elevation of the total number of red cells in blood. In practical ter...
Essential thrombocythaemia (ET)
Essential Thrombocythaemia is a chronic myeloproliferative haematological malignancy characterize...
Haemochromatosis
In hereditary haemochromatosis, disturbed regulation of iron absorption causes accumulation of ir...
Haemolytic anaemia
A reticulocyte count (erythrocytes/blood) is a first-line investigation in anaemia; it differenti...
Hereditary coagulation factor deficiencies
A general practitioner should be aware of the existence of all the patients in his/her area who h...
Inherited thrombophilia
Inherited thrombophilia increases the likelihood of venous thrombosis. The highest risk is associ...
Iron deficiency anaemia
The majority of cases of microcytic anaemia (MCV < 80 fl) are caused by iron deficiency. ...
Leucocytopenia
The majority of white blood cells are either neutrophils (band cells and polymorphonuclear granul...
Leucocytosis
Diagnose a severe infection as the cause of leucocytosis immediately and arrange treatment withou...
Lymphomas
Lymphomas form a heterogeneous group of diseases as regards aggressiveness, need of care and prog...
Macrocytosis (increased MCV)
Mean corpuscular volume or MCV denotes the average red blood cell volume. The normal reference ra...
Megaloblastic anaemia
Suspect megaloblastic anaemia if the patient presents with macrocytic anaemia, i.e. increased ery...
Multiple myeloma (MM)
Affects primarily middle-aged and elderly patients.Recognize complications that require prompt in...
Polycythaemia vera (PV)
The major goal of the treatment is to prevent thrombotic complications and haemorrhages. The amou...
Retinal venous thrombosis
The second most common circulatory disturbance of the ocular fundus after diabetic retinopathy Th...
Secondary anaemia
Exclude "specific" anaemias (iron deficiency, vitamin deficiency, haemolysis, acute hae...
Thalassaemias
Thalassaemias (a deficiency of globin chains) must be differentiated from other haemolytic diseas...
Thrombocytopenia
Stop drugs possibly causing thrombocytopenia unless vitally indicated. If the thrombocytopenic pa...
Thrombocytosis
The blood platelet or thrombocyte concentration varies between individuals but remains rather con...
Tumours of haematopoietic and lymphoid tissues: general guidelines
The possibility of a malignant haematological disorder should be kept in mind when the patient&rs...
Waldenström's macroglobulinaemia (WM)
Remember Waldenström's macroglobulinaemia as a rare cause of a high ESR. In most cases a...
Warfarin therapy
Warfarin reduces the activity of both vitamin K dependent clotting factors and the natural antico...
