Blood Disorders in the Elderly

di Balducci - Ershler - de Gaetano • 2007 • dettagli prodotto

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Blood Disorders in the Elderly will provide hematologists, geriatricians and all clinicians involved in the care of patients with blood disorders with clear clinical advice on the diagnosis and management of these conditions. All hematological disorders are covered: anemia, malignancy, coagulation and platelet disorders and hemophilia.Table of Contents IntroductionPart I. Epidemiology: 1. Epidemiology of aging Lodovico Balducci and William B. Ershler2. Epidemiology of anemia: older adults Kushang V. Patel and Jack M. Guralnik3. Cancer in the older person: a comprehensive approach Oscar A. Cepeda, Julie K. Gammack and John E. Morley4. From fitness to frailty: toward a nosologic classification of the older aged person Lodovico Balducci and Claudia BeghePart II. Hemopoiesis: 5. Stem cell exhaustion and aging Gary Van Zant6. Hemopoietic micro-environment and age David N. Haylock and Susan K. Nilsson7. Replicative senescence, aging, and cancer Rita Effros8. Qualitative changes of hemopoiesis France Laurencet and Gilbert Zulian9. Aging and hemopoietic stress Lodovico Balducci and Cheryl Hardy10. Immunoglobulin response and aging Yuping Deng and Stefan Gravenstein11. Biological and clinical significance of monoclonal gammopathy Arati V. Rao and Harvey J. CohenPart III. Anemia of Aging: 12. Erythropoietin and aging Andrew S. Aartz13. Iron and aging E. Nemeth and Tomas Ganz14. Prevalence and mechanism of B12 deficiency Sally P. Stabler15. The consequences of anemia Luigi Ferrucci and Dan L. Longo16. The pathogenesis of late-life anemia Bindu Kanapuru and William B. Ershler17. Treatment of late-life anemia William B. ErshlerPart IV. Hematological Malignancies and Aging: 18. Cancer chemotherapy in the older person Lodovico Balducci19. Acute myeloid leukemia in the elderly Magda Elkabani and Jeffrey Lancet20. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia in elderly patients: diagnosis and therapy Salvatore Bruno, Femina Mazzella and Oscar Ballester21. Multiple myeloma Todd J. Alekshun and Melissa Alsina22. Non-Hodgkin lymphoma Nicole Jacobi and Bruce A. Peterson23. Unusual lymphomas in the elderly Youssef Gamal, Samuel Kerr and Thomas P. Loughran24. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia in the elderly Alexander S. D. Spiers25. Polycythemia vera and idiopathic myelofibrosis in the elderly Jerry L. SpivakPart V. Disorders of Hemostasis in the Elderly: 26. Acquired hemophilia in the elderly F. Baudo and F. de Cataldo27. Blood coagulation and aging Jozef Vermylen and Marc F. Hoylaerts28. Platelet disorders in the elderly Laura Terranova, Giancarla Gerli and Marco Cattaneo29. Gene-environment interactions and vascular risk in the elderly Daniela Mari30. Antithrombotic therapy: guidelines for the elderly Chiara Cerletti, H. J. Schunemann and Giovanni de Gaetano