The book “Concepts In Paediatrics : Haematology” is a treatise on diseases of blood and blood components in children. The book in its 51 chapters deals formally and systematically with the physiologic and pathologic aspects of blood and its components. The book in disquisition provides a detailed account of the causes, diagnosis, and treatment of all diseases of blood and blood components in an easy to comprehend format. After learning the contents in various chapters the learner should be able to, with reasonable confidence, discuss and treat both common and rare haematologic problems faced in office practice as well as in hospital and in the community at large. With this learning objective, the book is extremely useful to the students of Paediatrics, both undergraduate and postgraduate, as well as general practitioners, clinicians, paediatricians and paramedical and nursing personnel interested in the care of the newborn, child, adolescent and young adult.  

Contents: Preface. 1. Haematological assessment. 2. Iron deficiency anaemia. 3. Megaloblastic anaemia. 4. Aplastic anaemia. 5. Haemoglobinopathies. 6. Sickle cell disease. 7. Unstable haemoglobin. 8. Methaemoglobinaemia. 9. Thalassemia. 10. Haemolysis. 11. Hereditary spherocytosis. 12. Hereditary elliptocytosis. 13. Red cell enzymopathies. 14. G6PD deficiency. 15. Microangiopathic haemolytic anaemia. 16. Red cell membranopathies. 17. Autoimmune haemolytic anaemia. 18. Drug induced haemolysis. 19. Anaemia in systemic diseases. 20. Polycythemia. 21. Rhesus disease. 22. Abo haemolytic disease. 23. Neonatal anaemias. 24. Leucocytes. 25. Neutropenia. 26. Hereditary neutropenia. 27. Eosinophilia. 28. Infectious mononucleosis. 29. Phagocytes. 30. Chronic granulomatous disease. 31. Abnormal phagocytosis. 32. Leucocytosis. 33. Platelet. 34. Thrombocytopenia. 35. Neonatal Thrombocytopenia. 36. Platelet Dysfunction. 37. Inherited Platelet Dysfunction. 38. Acquired Platelet Dysfunction. 39. Platelet Transfusion. 40. Non Thrombocytopenic Purpura. 41. Coagulation. 42. Haemophilia. 43. Defects of fibrinogen. 44. Acquired coagulation disorders. 45. Haemorrhagic disease of newborn. 46. Vitamin K deficiency. 47. Disseminated intravascular coagulation. 48. DIC in neonate. 49. DIC in children. 50. Leukaemia. 51. Marrow infiltration.