Contributors ivPreface to the Fifth Edition v1 Iron Deficiency Anaemia 1Catherine Booth and Drew Provan2 Macrocytic Anaemia 7Samah Babiker and Nita Prasannan3 The Hereditary Anaemias 13Rachel Kesse- Adu4 Polycythaemia Vera Essential Thrombocythaemia and Myelofibrosis 19Anna L. Godfrey and Claire Harrison5 Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia 25Hugues de Lavallade6 The Acute Leukaemias 31Michael Austin and Bela Patel7 Platelet Disorders 39Marie A. Scully and John Paul Westwood8 Adult Myelodysplastic Syndrome 47Sally B. Killick9 Myeloma and Other Plasma Cell Dyscrasias 53Sally Moore and Karthik Ramasamy10 Bleeding Disorders Thrombosis and Anticoagulation 59Vickie McDonald11 Lymphoma 65Karen Stanley and David Wrench12 Stem Cell Transplantation 81Michelle Escebedo- Cousin and Kirsty Thomson13 Cellular Therapies 87Reuben Benjamin14 Paediatric Haematology 91John D. Grainger and Lianna Reynolds15 Amyloidosis with a Focus on Systemic Light Chain Amyloidosis 101Ayesha Shameem Mahmood16 Haematological Emergencies 109Vered Stavi and Igor Novitzky- BassoIndex 119
Drew Provan, Emeritus Reader in Autoimmune Haematology, Department of Haematology, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.Claire Harrison, Professor of Myeloproliferative Neoplasms and Deputy Medical Director, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust UK.