Hematology (Blood)

Hematology is the branch of biology includes physiology, pathology, internal medicine, clinical laboratory, and pediatrics that are concerned with the study of blood, the blood-forming organs, and blood sicknesses. Hematology consists of the study of etiology, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of blood diseases.

Blood diseases distress the production of blood and its components, such as blood cells, hemoglobin, blood proteins, mechanism of coagulation, etc.

Doctor who mainly work in hematology laboratories, and most commonly run it, are pathologists specialized in the diagnosis of hematological diseases, referred to as hematopathologists. Hematologists and hematopathologists normally work in conjunction to formulate a diagnosis and deliver the most appropriate treatment if wanted. Hematology is a separate subspecialty of internal medicine, part from but overlapping with the subspecialty of medical oncology. Hematologists may specialize further or have special interests, for example in:

• Treating bleeding disorders such as idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura and hemophilia.
• treating hematological malignancies such as leukemia and lymphoma
• take care of hemoglobinopathies in the science of blood transfusion and the work of a blood bank