What are blood diseases?

Blood is an important fluid in the human body. If there is a problem with the blood, it will pose a great threat to health and even life. Common blood diseases include red blood cell diseases, such as anemia, jaundice, abnormal hemoglobin disease, etc. Blood diseases cannot be ignored. Any physical discomfort should be checked and diagnosed immediately to avoid delaying treatment.

(a) Red blood cell diseases: various anemias: iron deficiency anemia, megaloblastic anemia, anemia of chronic disease, aplastic anemia, pure red cell aplasia, thalassemia (thalassemia). (Extensive destruction of red blood cells) Various hemolysis: autoimmune hemolytic anemia, favism, neonatal jaundice, drug-induced hemolysis, infectious hemolysis, abnormal hemoglobinopathy, paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria, hemolytic uremic syndrome, hemolysis caused by blood type incompatibility, hereditary spherocytosis. Polycythemia vera.

(ii) White blood cell diseases: leukopenia, agranulocytosis, acute leukemia, chronic myeloid leukemia, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, leukemoid reaction, infectious mononucleosis, myelodysplastic syndrome.

(III) Coagulation diseases: Henoch-Schonlein purpura, thrombocytopenia, immune thrombocytopenic purpura, thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, hemophilia, von Willebrand disease, disseminated intravascular coagulation, hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia, vascular purpura, fibrinolytic syndrome, hereditary protein C deficiency, hereditary protein S deficiency, hereditary antithrombin III deficiency, dysfibrinogenemia, thrombasthenia, giant platelet syndrome, essential platelet factor III deficiency. Essential thrombocythemia.

(IV) Lymphoma and others: Hodgkin's lymphoma, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, multiple myeloma, angioimmunoblastic lymphadenopathy, lymphomatoid granulomatosis, Castleman's disease, reactive plasma cell disorder, macroglobulinemia, heavy chain disease, POEMS syndrome, myelofibrosis, hemochromatosis, amyloidosis, hypersplenism.

(V) Fever of unknown cause is often a manifestation of blood disease.