Hæmatologi

Portal hypertension is causally related to major complications of chronic liver disease like upper GI tract bleeding, ascites formation, portosystemic encephalopathy and bacterial infections. In recent years, new approaches have increased our knowledge of the underlying pathobiological events of these complications. Accordingly, new promising treatment modalities have been developed and introduced into clinical trials. This book, the proceedings of the 79th Falk Symposium in Freiburg-im-Breisgau, Germany, 17--19 June 1994, presents the latest developments in the field, including a section which describes the role of portal hypertension in the pathogenesis of complications of chronic liver disease. Also covered is the therapeutic management of portal hypertension and its consequences as well as the latest endoscopic, interventional and surgical treatment options. This book is essential reading for those whose interests range from anatomy and pathobiology through to practical recommendations for treatment of portal hypertension.

Powerfully involving narrative and incisive detail, clarity and inherent drama: Blood offers in abundance the qualities that define the best popular science writing. Here is the sweeping story of a substance that has been feared, revered, mythologized, and used in magic and medicine from earliest times--a substance that has become the center of a huge, secretive, and often dangerous worldwide commerce.Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Blood was described by judges as "a gripping page-turner, a significant contribution to the history of medicine and technology and a cautionary tale. Meticulously reported and exhaustively documented."

In diesem Buch werden die verschiedenen Viren (Hepatitis-B-Virus, Hepatitis-Non-A-Non-B-Viren, Cytomegalievirus, Epstein-Barr-Virus, Papovaviren, HIV), die Blut, Plasma und Plasmapraparate kontaminieren konnen, besprochen. Es werden die Nachweisverfahren dieser verschiedenen Viren und Methoden zu ihrer Beseitigung in den angegebenen Praparaten dargestellt. Auerdem werden die Anforderungen diskutiert, die das Arzneimittelgesetz an den Hersteller und an den Anwender dieser Produkte hinsichtlich der Wirksamkeit und Unschadlichkeit stellt. Das Thema hat durch die Ubertragung von HIV durch Blut oder Blutprodukte in den vergangenen Jahren enorm an Bedeutung gewonnen.

Dieses Buch ist das Resume eines Workshops des "e;Arbeitskreises Kinderanasthesie"e; und befat sich mit perioperativer Volumensubstitution nach Blutverlust bei Kindern. Das gesamte Spektrum der hamatologisch perioperativen Problematik der Kinderanasthesie mit Physio- und Pathophysiologie von Gerinnung und Hamatopoese ist erstmals in Buchform zusammengefat. Der Leser wird informiert uber die Moglichkeiten des Volumen-Monitorings, der Hamodilution, der intraoperativen Retransfusion sowie der Eigen- bzw. Fremdblutspende. Wissenschaftlich fundierte und klinisch relevante Konzepte der Volumensubstitution und Transfusion auf neuestem wissenschaftlichen Stand erganzen diesen Band.

Primary CNS lymphomas (PCNSLs) are defined as non-Hodgkin lymphomas which, at the time of diagnosis, are located exclusively in the brain parenchyma, in the meninges and / or in the spinal cord or in the vitreoretinal area. They occur much more frequently in immunoincompetent patients than in immunocompetent patients. As a rule, it is an aggressive, diffuse large-cell B-cell lymphoma, in which the median survival time without therapy is only a few weeks to months after diagnosis.The therapeutic spectrum of PCNSL is limited by the difficulty of crossing the blood-brain barrier. If this is the case, however, the chemosensitivity is high. Due to the rarity of this tumor disease, most studies are based only on small numbers of patients with limited informative value. Nevertheless, in the last few years, it has been possible to establish promising curative therapeutic approaches that are based on induction and subsequent consolidation therapy and enable high remission rates and several years of progression-free survival.All of these aspects are taken into account in this monograph, which summarizes the current knowledge on the PCNSLs in a compact and informative way.

This volume presents the MD Anderson experience in providing care and services to the rapidly growing population of cancer survivors, which is currently estimated to be 12 million in the United States and more than 25 million worldwide. As cancer survival rates have increased, it has slowly become clear that the challenges faced by people with cancer do not end with treatment but simply change. This book aims to assist community oncologists, physicians, and their staff, who care for the vast majority of cancer survivors, by disseminating models of surveillance for disease recurrence, screening for second primary cancers, education regarding potential late effects of treatment, and psychosocial counseling. These models have proven valuable to cancer survivors who receive care at MD Anderson.

I "Aplastisk Anæmi – En solstråle historie" får du lov at følge mig, på min rejse igennem sygdommen Aplastisk Anæmi og behandlingen for selv samme. Bogen er fyldt med alle tanker, følelser, og faktiske trin i behandlingen som jeg måtte igennem. Det er min historie uden omsvøb, og kan derfor være hård læsning, men forhåbentlig en trøst og "en ven i nøden" til dig der skal ud på samme rejse.