Hematology is the study of blood, blood-forming organs, and diseases related to blood. Hematology includes the study of etiology, diagnosis, treatment, prognosis, and prevention of blood diseases that affect the production of blood and its components, such as blood cells, hemoglobin, blood proteins, and the mechanism of coagulation.
At the hematology-oncology department of SVCA, the doctors and experts cure the following conditions.
- Chronic leukemias- Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), Essential thrombocytosis (ET), Myelofibrosis, Chronic lymphoid leukemia (CLL).
- Acute leukemias-Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML).
- Lymphomas- Hodgkins lymphoma, Non-hodgkins lymphomas (NHL).
- Plasma cell dyscrasias – Myeloma, Amyloidosis.
- Anaemias- Nutritional, Autoimmune hemolytic anaemias, Anaemia of chronic disease.
- Thalassemias, Sickle cell disease.
- Thrombocytopenias- ITP (Immune thrombocytopenia).
- Leucopenia, Leucocytosis, Eosinophilia.
- Pancytopenia, Aplastic anaemia, Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS).
- Polycythemia, Thrombocytosis.
- Bleeding disorders- Haemophilias, Von Willebrand disease (VWD), others.
- Thrombotic disorders- Deep vein thrombosis (DVT), Cortical vein thrombosis (CVT), Pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE), and Abdominal vessel thrombosis.
- Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC).
- Pregnancy complications-Thrombocytopenia, Recurrent, pregnancy loss, Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (APLA), Protein C & Protein S deficiency, DIC.