Decision Making Through Problem Based Learning in Hematology A Step-by-Step Approach in patients with Anemia

In this era of teaching through problem-based learning, this unique book guides approaching patients with anemia through a step-by-step analysis of test results. It explains the rationale for requesting appropriate tests and analyzing them systematically and correlates each answer to the disease-based entity on the latest evidence. The target audience is undergraduate medical students during hematopathology training and the introductory phase in clinical Medicine and Hematology, postgraduate residents in Hematology and Medicine, and undergraduate and postgraduate Allied Health students. It provides a quick reference source for practitioners and teachers in medical and paramedical institutions.

Chapter 1 Iron Deficiency Anemia.- Chapter 2 Megaloblastic Anemia.- Chapter 3 Thalassemia Major.- Chapter 4 Thalassemia minor.- Chapter 5 Anemia of chronic disorders.- Chapter 6 Congenital Dyserythropoietic Anemia.- Chapter 7 Hereditary spherocytosis.- Chapter 8 Hereditary PyroPoikilocytosis.- Chapter 9 G6PD enzyme deficiency.- Chapter 10 Auto Immune Hemolytic Anemia.- Chapter 11 Cold Agglutinin Disease.- Chapter 12 Cryglobulinemia.- Chapter 13 Paroxysmal Cold Hemoglobinuria.- Chapter 14 Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria.- Chapter 15 Microangiopathic hemolytic anemia.- Chapter 16 Aplastic anemia.- Chapter 17 Pure Red Cell Anemia.- Chapter 18 Myelofibrosis.- Chapter 19 Myelodysplastic syndrome.- Chapter 20 Secondary Hemochromatosis.- Chapter 21 Sickle cell and related Hemoglobinopathies.- Chapter 22 Non-sickle cell structural Hemoglobinopathies..- Chapter 23 Copper deficiency anemia.- Chapter 24 Cong marrow failure syndrome.- Chapter 25 Cancer induced anemia.

Dr. Arun Gupta (MD, DNB) a Post- graduate from PGIMER Chandigarh, India and is a consultant hematologist working in a leading teaching hospital under the Department of Pathology and Medicine Kuwait University since 2001. He has published articles in the British Journal of Hematology, Laboratory Medicine (from USA), ASH Education book, Medscape, LUPUS journal, International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Medical Principles and Practice, in addition to contributions to numerous meetings and workshops.