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Immune hemolytic anemia, 2nd ed.
BOOK REVIEW
BOOK REVIEW Immune Hemolytic Anemia, 2nd ed. Lawrence D. Petz and George Garratty (eds). Edinburgh, UK, Churchhill Livingstone, 2003, 448 pp, $110.00. This work is a comprehensive and valuable source of information on the pathology, technical analysis, clinical aspects, and medical management of immune hemolytic anemia. It is a multiauthored text that is written by acknowledged, well-respected experts in the field of transfusion medicine. This text is of high quality and offers highly up-todate information in technical assays, clinical practice, and management in transfusion medicine. The book is well organized and offers extensive, broad-based information covering historical, scientific, and technical aspects of immune hemolytic anemia. Chapters on hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn and classification and immune hemolysis associated with transplantation have been included. The sections on management of autoimmune hemolytic anemias, passenger lymphocyte syndrome, and the hemolytic complications in post-transplant medicine and characteristics of autoimmune hemolytic anemias, especially cold agglutinin syndrome, are extremely well written and informative. Furthermore, this text includes current information regarding the management of specific
clinical scenarios not present in most texts such as cardiac surgery and cold autoantibodies. Because there is a relative paucity of pictures, this text is not intended as an atlas. Nonetheless, there are many diagrams and tables that are very explicative. Although the text is easy to read, it is rather encyclopedic and offers extensive information regarding the scientific basis of immune hemolytic anemias and is not intended as an introductory text or as a quick reference. Nevertheless, it is extensively referenced, authoritative in its facts, and provides excellent discussion regarding current clinical management issues. This text is meant for comprehensive directed reading for clinicians and pathologists at an intermediate to advanced level. It will appeal particularly to the interest of hematology clinicians and clinical laboratory pathologists who are seeking in-depth information on the scientific basis, technical workup, differential diagnoses, and clinical management of immune hemolytic anemias. Furthermore, transfusion medicine specialists will find this book of practical use, and researchers will find it a useful compendium of current opinion regarding theory, technical detail, and therapeutic options in blood-banking practice.—MICHELLE PAESSLER, MD, Department of Molecular Pathology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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BOOK REVIEW Immune Hemolytic Anemia, 2nd ed. Lawrence D. Petz and George Garratty (eds). Edinburgh, UK, Churchhill Livingstone, 2003, 448 pp, $110.00. This work is a comprehensive and valuable source of information on the pathology, technical analysis, clinical aspects, and medical management of immune hemolytic anemia. It is a multiauthored text that is written by acknowledged, well-respected experts in the field of transfusion medicine. This text is of high quality and offers highly up-todate information in technical assays, clinical practice, and management in transfusion medicine. The book is well organized and offers extensive, broad-based information covering historical, scientific, and technical aspects of immune hemolytic anemia. Chapters on hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn and classification and immune hemolysis associated with transplantation have been included. The sections on management of autoimmune hemolytic anemias, passenger lymphocyte syndrome, and the hemolytic complications in post-transplant medicine and characteristics of autoimmune hemolytic anemias, especially cold agglutinin syndrome, are extremely well written and informative. Furthermore, this text includes current information regarding the management of specific
clinical scenarios not present in most texts such as cardiac surgery and cold autoantibodies. Because there is a relative paucity of pictures, this text is not intended as an atlas. Nonetheless, there are many diagrams and tables that are very explicative. Although the text is easy to read, it is rather encyclopedic and offers extensive information regarding the scientific basis of immune hemolytic anemias and is not intended as an introductory text or as a quick reference. Nevertheless, it is extensively referenced, authoritative in its facts, and provides excellent discussion regarding current clinical management issues. This text is meant for comprehensive directed reading for clinicians and pathologists at an intermediate to advanced level. It will appeal particularly to the interest of hematology clinicians and clinical laboratory pathologists who are seeking in-depth information on the scientific basis, technical workup, differential diagnoses, and clinical management of immune hemolytic anemias. Furthermore, transfusion medicine specialists will find this book of practical use, and researchers will find it a useful compendium of current opinion regarding theory, technical detail, and therapeutic options in blood-banking practice.—MICHELLE PAESSLER, MD, Department of Molecular Pathology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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