Hematology
Clinical hematology is a medical specialty that focuses on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases related to the blood and blood-forming system.
This includes various benign and malignant diseases, such as anemias, acute and chronic leukemias, lymphomas, and blood clotting disorders.
These diseases can be diagnosed through laboratory tests, such as blood tests, bone marrow and lymph node biopsies, genetic tests, and imaging diagnostics.
Often, collaboration with specialists from other specialties such as gastroenterologists, obstetricians-gynecologists, surgeons, pathologists, geneticists, and imaging diagnostics is necessary to determine the exact diagnosis.
Symptoms and signs of various hematological diseases can be varied and depend on the type of disease.
The most frequent clinical symptoms connected to a hematological disease are:
- Fatigue, palpitations, shortness of breath, pale skin and mucous membranes in anemias.
- Easy bruising, nosebleeds and gums, prolonged bleeding after surgical interventions in various blood clotting disorders.
- Recurrent venous and arterial thrombosis in congenital and acquired thrombophilic states.
- Swelling of the lymph nodes, enlargement of the spleen and liver, loss of appetite and weight loss, increased body temperature, night sweats, changes in the number of leukocytes, erythrocytes and platelets in various leukemias and lymphomas.
Pregnancy is a condition that leads to various physiological changes in the woman's body, including in the hematological system.
These changes are normal and adaptive, in order to ensure a better supply of oxygen and nutrients to the mother and fetus, as well as to prepare the body for childbirth.
However, some hematological changes may be risky and require hematological consultation. Some of these conditions are:
- Anemia
- Thrombocytopenia
- Thrombotic complications and thrombophilia
The clinical relationship between the various forms of congenital and acquired thrombophilias and a number of pregnancy complications is well established - early spontaneous abortions, fetal growth retardation, preeclampsia, placental abruption, etc.
In many cases this requires careful clinical monitoring of the pregnancy and mode of delivery.
A consultation with a Clinical hematologist includes a conversation with the patient, getting to know the symptoms and complaints, conducting a general and focused medical examination, reviewing, interpreting and ordering (if necessary) laboratory and imaging tests and conducting treatment.
For more information about the possibilities of an examination and consultation by a Clinical hematologist, you can contact your doctor or call MC MARKOVS.
