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Transfusion Medicine

Case Studies and Clinical Management

  • An original collection of 30 transfusion medicine cases displaying specific diagnostic and therapeutic features

  • Each case is an illustration of an immune or microbial condition related to the use of blood, or the use of specific techniques, components and alternatives to blood in different clinical settings

  • Cases are presented in a fashion emulating the process of the making of clinical diagnosis and management decisions. Each case is drawn from a real-life situation, with minimal additions

  • At the end of each case there will be a concise summary of the salient features of the condition/method described

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
  2. Errare Humanum Est

    • Aleksandar Mijovic
    Pages 1-4
  3. Send Another Sample, Please

    • Aleksandar Mijovic
    Pages 5-7
  4. Mosquito in the Bag

    • Aleksandar Mijovic
    Pages 9-11
  5. An Enigmatic Haplotype

    • Aleksandar Mijovic
    Pages 13-16
  6. An Unwanted Passenger

    • Aleksandar Mijovic
    Pages 17-19
  7. Acute Reaction to Red Cells: What Lies Beneath?

    • Aleksandar Mijovic
    Pages 27-30
  8. Dial M for HeMolysis

    • Aleksandar Mijovic
    Pages 31-34
  9. Rash and Hypotension During Transfusion

    • Aleksandar Mijovic
    Pages 35-37
  10. Breathless

    • Aleksandar Mijovic
    Pages 39-42
  11. Regular Transfusions, Iron, and Teenage Pregnancy

    • Aleksandar Mijovic
    Pages 43-46
  12. A Woman with Slurred Speech and Thrombocytopenia

    • Aleksandar Mijovic
    Pages 47-50
  13. Strong Tea or Coca-Cola

    • Aleksandar Mijovic
    Pages 51-53
  14. With a Little Help from Friends

    • Aleksandar Mijovic
    Pages 55-57
  15. Rare Blood

    • Aleksandar Mijovic
    Pages 59-61
  16. Who Is the Donor?

    • Aleksandar Mijovic
    Pages 63-67
  17. The Matchmaker

    • Aleksandar Mijovic
    Pages 69-72
  18. The Bruised Newborn

    • Aleksandar Mijovic
    Pages 73-77
  19. Learning from Refusal

    • Aleksandar Mijovic
    Pages 79-82

About this book

The purpose of this clinical transfusion medicine handbook is to take the reader through a variety of clinical problems, each one likely to be encountered in a busy teaching hospital. The reader follows the stream of clinical and laboratory data, developing the ability for critical thinking which leads him/her to diagnosis and appropriate management. The book is a lively illustration of various clinical problems in transfusion medicine, including immune complications, microbiological problems, blood component use, apheresis techniques, and management of complex situations such as multiple trauma, sickle cell crisis, and organ transplantation. Each case is carefully chosen and presented, with incorporated questions, leading the reader towards solution of the problem in a logical and didactic manner

Authors and Affiliations

  • , Haematology, Kings College Hospital, London, United Kingdom

    Aleksandar Mijovic

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Transfusion Medicine

  • Book Subtitle: Case Studies and Clinical Management

  • Authors: Aleksandar Mijovic

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2182-4

  • Publisher: Springer London

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London Limited 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-2182-4Published: 25 October 2011

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 111

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Hematology, Blood Transfusion Medicine, Medicine/Public Health, general

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