Clinical Hematologists are experts in hematology, which is a branch of medicine that involves studying the blood, blood-forming organs (such as the bone marrow), and blood diseases. Abnormalities in peripheral blood counts can either reflect primary hematologic disease or secondary response to systemic disease, hematologists deal with a broad array of diseases.
Benign hematology is a subset of hematology that focuses on non-cancerous blood disorders such as anemia, elevated and decreased blood cells, iron overload or deficiency syndromes, low or high platelet counts and several rare diseases.
Clinical hematologist evaluates and treats patients with changes in their blood counts of an undiagnosed or benign nature, including those with:
- Anemia and red cell disorders – low hemoglobin
- Autoimmune hemolytic anemias
- Autoimmune thrombocytopenia
- Hemoglobinopathies
- Hemolytic uremic syndrome
- Hemophagocytic syndrome
- Hereditary hemolytic anemias
- Histiocytic disorders
- Immune thrombocytopenia
- Leukopenia
- Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria
- Platelet disorders
- Thrombocytopenia
- White blood cell disorders