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Machine generated contents note: 1.Approach to the Patient -- 2.Classification of Anemias and Polycythemias -- 3.Aplastic Anemia: Acquired and Inherited -- 4.Pure Red Cell Aplasia -- 5.Anemia of Chronic Renal Disease -- 6.Anemia of Endocrine Disorders -- 7.Congenital Dyserythropoietic Anemias -- 8.The Megaloblastic Anemias -- 9.Iron-Deficiency Anemia and Iron Overload -- 10.Anemia Resulting from Other Nutritional Deficiencies -- 11.Hereditary and Acquired Sideroblastic Anemias -- 12.Anemia Resulting from Marrow Infiltration -- 13.Anemia of Chronic Inflammation -- 14.Hereditary Spherocytosis, Elliptocytosis, and Related Disorders -- 15.Hemolytic Anemia Related to Red Cell Enzyme Defects -- 16.The Thalassemias -- 17.The Sickle Cell Diseases and Related Disorders -- 18.Hemoglobinopathies Associated with Unstable Hemoglobin -- 19.Methemoglobinemia and Other Dyshemoglobinemias. Note continued: 20.Traumatic Hemolytic Anemia, March and Sports-Related Hemoglobinuria, Traumatic Cardiac Hemolytic Anemia -- 21.Microangiopathic Hemolytic Anemia -- 22.Hemolytic Anemia Resulting from a Chemical or Physical Agent -- 23.Hemolytic Anemia Resulting from Infectious Agents -- 24.Hemolytic Anemia Resulting from Warm-Reacting Antibodies -- 25.Cryopathic Hemolytic Anemia -- 26.Drug-Induced Hemolytic Anemia -- 27.Alloimmune Hemolytic Disease of the Newborn -- 28.Hypersplenism and Hyposplenism -- 29.Polyclonal Polycythemias (Primary and Secondary) -- 30.The Porphyrias -- 31.Classification and Clinical Manifestations of Neutrophil Disorders -- 32.Neutropenia and Neutrophilia -- 33.Disorders of Neutrophil Functions -- 34.Eosinophils and Their Diseases -- 35.Basophils and Mast Cells and Their Diseases -- 36.Monocytosis and Monocytopenia -- 37.Inflammatory and Malignant Histiocytosis -- 38.Lipid Storage Disease. Note continued: 39.Pharmacology and Toxicity of Antineoplastic Drugs -- 40.Principles of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation -- 41.Classification and Clinical Manifestations of the Clonal Myeloid Disorders -- 42.Myelodysplastic Syndromes (Clonal Cytopenias and Oligoblastic Myelogenous Leukemia) -- 43.Polycythemia Vera -- 44.Primary and Familial Thrombocythemia -- 45.Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria (PNH) -- 46.The Acute Myelogenous Leukemias -- 47.The Chronic Myelogenous Leukemias -- 48.Primary Myelofibrosis -- 49.Classification of the Polyclonal Lymphoid Disorders -- 50.Lymphocytosis and Lymphocytopenia -- 51.Primary Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- 52.The Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- 53.The Mononucleosis Syndromes -- 54.Classification and Clinical Manifestations of the Malignant Lymphoid Disorders -- 55.The Acute Lymphocytic Leukemias -- 56.The Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemias -- 57.Hairy Cell Leukemia -- 58.Large Granular Lymphocytic Leukemia. Note continued: 59.Hodgkin Lymphoma -- 60.General Considerations of Lymphoma: Epidemiology, Etiology, Heterogeneity, and Primary Extranodal Disease -- 61.Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma -- 62.Follicular Lymphomas -- 63.Mantle Cell Lymphomas -- 64.Marginal Zone B-Cell Lymphoma -- 65.Burkitt Lymphoma -- 66.Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma (Mycosis Fungoides and Sezary Syndrome) -- 67.Mature T-Cell and Natural Killer Cell Lymphomas -- 68.Essential Monoclonal Gammopathy -- 69.Myeloma -- 70.Macroglobulinemia -- 71.Heavy-Chain Diseases -- 72.Amyloidosis -- 73.Clinical Manifestations, Evaluation, and Classification of Disorders of Hemostasis -- 74.Thrombocytopenia -- 75.Reactive (Secondary) Thrombocytosis -- 76.Hereditary Platelet Disorders -- 77.Acquired Platelet Disorders -- 78.The Vascular Purpuras -- 79.Hemophilia A and B -- 80.von Willebrand Disease -- 81.Hereditary Disorders of Fibrinogen. Note continued: 82.Inherited Deficiencies of Coagulation Factors II, V, VII, X, XI, and XIII and the Combined Deficiencies of Factors V and VIII and of the Vitamin K-Dependent Factors -- 83.Antibody-Mediated Coagulation Factor Deficiencies -- 84.Hemostatic Dysfunction Related to Liver Diseases -- 85.The Antiphospholipid Syndrome (Lupus Anticoagulant and Related Disorders) -- 86.Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation -- 87.Fibrinolysis and Thrombolysis -- 88.Principles of Antithrombotic Therapy -- 89.Hereditary Thrombophilia -- 90.Venous Thromboembolism -- 91.Antibody-Mediated Thrombotic Disorders: Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura and Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia -- 92.Red Cell Transfusion -- 93.Transfusion of Platelets -- 94.Therapeutic Hemapheresis.