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The history of a hematology dates back to ancient Egypt and the use of blood-letting tools. A major breakthrough in the study of a blood occurred in 1642 when Anthony van Leeuwenhoek built a microscope and identified blood cells. In 1770, William Hewson, the 'Father of a Hematology', introduced to the clotting features of blood and shared his knowledge of leukocytes, or white blood cells.

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Hematology

The history of a hematology dates back to ancient Egypt and the use of blood-letting tools. A major breakthrough in the study of a blood occurred in 1642 when Anthony van Leeuwenhoek built a microscope and identified blood cells. In 1770, William Hewson, the 'Father of a Hematology', introduced to the clotting features of blood and shared his knowledge of leukocytes, or white blood cells.

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HEMATOLOGY

Hematology is the science & study of blood, blood-forming to


organs and blood diseases.
In the medical field, hematology includes to the treatment o
blood disorders and malignancies, including types of leukemia,
lymphoma, hemophilia and sickle-cell anemia. Hematology is a
branch of internal medicine that deals with the etiology,
physiology, diagnosis, pathology, treatment, prognosis and
prevention to blood-related disorders.

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SPECIALIZATION:
Physicians specialized to hematology are known as
hematologists. their routine work to mainly includes with the
care and treatments to patients with hematological diseases,
although some many also work at the hematology laboratory
viewing with blood films is a thin layer of blood smeared on a
glass microscope slide and the stained. with such a way as to all
the various blood cells to be examined microscopically and
bone marrow is a semi-solid tissue. which may be found with in
the spongy or cancelous portions of bones. it is composed with
onomatopoetic cells, marrow adipose tissue, and supportive
maelstrom cells. slides under the microscope is an instrument
used to see with objects that are too small to be an seen by the
naked eye. interpreting various with hematological test results
and blood clotting test are test used for diagnostics of the
hemostats system results.

TRAINING:
Starting hematologists completed to a four-year medical
degree followed by the three & four more years with in
residency or internship programs. after completion, they
further expand with their knowledge by the spending two &
three more years learning. how to experiment, diagnose, and
treat blood disorders. when the applying for this career, most
job openings look at the for first-hand practical experience in a
recognized by the training program that provides practice in the
following.
BLOOD DISORDERS:
When something is a wrong with your blood, it can be affect
your total health. it is important for you to a know about the
some of the blood disorders that may affect you.
People may be affected by the many different types of blood
cancers and blood conditions. common blood disorders include
bleeding disorders, anemia such as blood clots, hemophilia, and
blood cancers such as melanoma, lymphoma and leukemia.

SCOPE OF HEMATOLOGY:
Hematology is a practiced by a specialists in the field to who
deal with the diagnosis, treatment and overall management at
the people with blood disorders ranging from anemia to blood
cancer.
Some of the diseases treated by hematologists include:
 Leukemia
 Hypoglycemia or excess production of red blood cells
 Bone marrow stem cell transplantation
 Iron deficiency anemia and the other types of anemia such
as sickle cell anemia or trauma-related anemia
 Multiple melanoma
 Blood transfusion
 Hemoglobin such as Tallahassee and sickle cell disease
 Platelet and bleeding disorders such as hemophilia,
idiopathic thrombolytic Purana and Von Hildebrand
disease
 Malignant lymphomas
 The thermoplastic syndromes
 Fibrosis

FURTHER READING:
 Hematology treatments
 pediatric blood diseases
 Hematology tests

Hematology oncology:
Although hematologists work together with an experts from
various medical and surgical specialties, hematology is a most
often linked with oncology. Hematologists and a oncologists
work together to care for adults and children with cancers of
the blood and bone marrow, including leukemia and
lymphoma.

Hematology tests:
They One of the most common hematology tests is the
complete blood count, or CBC. This test is a often conducted
during a routine exam and can detect anemia, clotting
problems, blood cancers, immune system disorders and to
infections.

Other hematology tests include:


• Blood enzyme test;
• Blood chemistry test;

• and blood tests to an assess heart disease risk.

History of Hematology:
The history of a hematology dates back to ancient Egypt and
the use of blood-letting tools. A major breakthrough in the
study of a blood occurred in 1642 when Anthony van
Leeuwenhoek built an microscope and identified blood cells. In
1770, William Hewson, the 'Father of a Hematology',
introduced to the clotting features of blood and shared his
knowledge of a leukocytes, or white blood cells. It wasn't an
until 1818 that James Blundell successfully completed in the
first recorded blood transfusion between a humans, but the
world would have a to wait almost another the hundred years
before Reuben Ottenberg used to blood typing to conduct
transfusions and identified the universality of type O blood.

Here are some of other important dates associated with the


history of hematology:

 1901: Karl Landsteiner and his associates define to the


different blood groups: A, B, AB, and O.
 1914: Richard Lewisohn discovers a how sodium citrate
can be used to store blood.
 1936: The first blood bank to opens in Chicago.
 1961: The role of a platelets in treating cancer patients it is
identified.
 1971: Healthcare professionals in the United States start
testing blood for a Hepatitis B.
 1983: Doctors in a France and the United States discover in
the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
 1987: The Food and Drug Administration to approves the
use of a azidothymidine (AZT) to treat HIV.
 1990s: Recombinant factor replacement that products are
used to treat hemophilia.

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