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About hematology

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Hematology - the field of medicine which is engaged in studying, treatment and prevention of diseases of blood and bodies of a hemopoiesis.

Blood performs not only nutritious function in an organism, delivering nutrients and oxygen to cells, but also protective as is principal organ of immune system. In this regard, diseases of blood and bodies of the hemopoietic system always have serious consequences for an organism.

Despite considerable achievements of hematology for the last several decades, diseases of blood meet quite often. The fact that the quantity of diseases of blood among children including malignant that connect, first of all, with an adverse ecological situation grows is especially alarming. Except bad ecology, the following factors exert impact on developing of diseases of blood: psychoemotional tension, irrational food, contact with carcinogenic substances, ionizing radiation. Also hereditary factor is of great importance.

Two biggest groups of diseases which hematologists should face are malignant defeats of blood (leukoses, lymphoma) and anemias.

The hematology in the present very time successfully copes with many illnesses, the break is made also concerning malignant defeats of blood. So, acute leukoses at children now successfully recover in 90% of cases, on condition of timely diagnosis.

It should be noted that timely diagnosis plays a crucial role in hematology as in the started cases of disturbance accept so global character that it is not possible to compensate them and vice versa, at early stages the majority of diseases of blood is successfully treated. It is one of the reasons that blood test is appointed at any inspection, even at the address to the doctor in absolutely other occasion.

At emergence of alarming symptoms it is impossible to take a waiting attitude, and it is necessary to see immediately a doctor and to take a blood test on the analysis.

Early symptoms of the majority of hematologic diseases is the following: increased fatigue, pallor of integuments, cyanosis of lips and nails, the strengthened bleeding (spontaneous bleedings from a nose, emergence of extensive hematomas even at small bruises, is long not stopping bleedings from small wounds), causeless night fever and loss of weight.

 
 
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