(n.) The science which treats of the blood. Same as Hematology.
Example Sentences:
(1) Other haematological parameters remained normal, with the exception of the absolute number of lymphocytes, which initially fell sharply but soon returned to, and even exceeded, control levels.
(2) It is suggested that the results indicate the need for full haematological screening of all patients with recurrent aphthae.
(3) There were no biochemical or haematological abnormalities caused by prazosin but on continued therapy 16 patients developed tolerance to its effect.
(4) Haematological findings in 9 dogs with splenic or hepatic haemangiosarcoma included a mild to moderate normochromic anaemia, neutrophilia, thrombocytopaenia, poikilocytosis and increased target cells.
(5) Haematological and blood biochemical changes in the sheep, as well as fecundity of gastrointestinal nematodes, suggested the hosts were immunosuppressed.
(6) 24 CLL patients were subjected to routine haematological and clinical investigation.
(7) Other toxicities have included liver function abnormalities, hypotension, transient neurological changes and haematological abnormalities.
(8) The only haematological abnormality in these patients was the presence of few atypical lymphoid cells in the peripheral blood.
(9) Non-haematological side effects were most pronounced in the 100% group.
(10) There were no significant effects on the haematology, serum chemistry and urinalysis and no compound-related effects on survival.
(11) The red blood cell (RBC) glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) activity and routine haematological parameters were measured in 38 healthy north Italian full-term pregnant women and in their newborn infants.
(12) Review of the use of platelet concentrates in a large haematology unit showed lack of adherence to this threshold with the use of platelet transfusions at higher platelet counts.
(13) He uses as a basis the CDC classification of HIV infections and explains on different models of clinical situations mechanisms which lead to haematological, neurological, immunological, pneumological, gastroenterological, oncological and rheumatological symptomatology.
(14) Analysis of the clinical features, the operative, bacteriological and haematological findings is made and discussed in detail.
(15) Patients who achieved haematological remission on a standard chemotherapy regimen either received or did not receive craniospinal irradiation plus intrathecal methotrexate.Of the 80 patients who did not receive prophylactic C.N.S.
(16) Haematological changes after renal transplantation in 76 patients were reviewed and the differences observed between patients treated with cyclosporin-A and prednisolone and those treated with azathioprine and prednisolone were compared.
(17) The diagnosis of CLL demanded the demonstration of an abnormally low immunoglobulin level and impaired lymphocyte responsiveness to PHA by blast transformation or 3H-thymidine incorporation, in addition to the usual haematological findings.
(18) These drugs are contraindicated in patients with ulcers, with haematological diseases, and with severe cirrhosis.
(19) Given the increasing incidence of AIDS and the frequency of haematological abnormalities in this condition, the practising clinician should have a high index of suspicion when confronted by any unexplained haematological abnormality.
(20) The haematological profile demonstrated a macrocytic normochromic anaemia caused possibly by a folic acid deficiency as a result of the food restriction.
Hematology
Definition:
(n.) The science which treats of the blood.
Example Sentences:
(1) Splenectomy had been performed for traumatic, hematologic or immunologic reasons.
(2) Four of the nine patients failed to show any clinical or hematological improvement.
(3) Blood samples from 23 subjects with chronic renal failure and 19 controls were tested using thrombelastography and other hematologic tests.
(4) Eleven had hematological disorders, and 12 received steroids (sometimes with immunosuppressive or cytotoxic drugs).
(5) These cycles of treatment were repeated as soon as the hematologic restoration was complete.
(6) Antiplatelet factors disappear upon achieving a clinical and hematological remission.
(7) The high levels of circulating progenitor cells in ALL and CLL patients clearly distinguish them from other cytopenic hematological malignancies, in which decreased progenitor cell levels have been demonstrated previously (acute myeloid leukemia, hairy cell leukemia).
(8) To exclude influences other than time on the outcome of the reactions, all the material was taken from hematologically normal persons.
(9) It is of advantage for the staff of the enlarged blood bank to perform some degree of clinical activity, to facilitate discussion of clinical and technical problems relating to hematological disorders in general.
(10) We evaluated clinical effects and toxicities of a combination treatment with cefminox (CMNX) and fosfomycin (FOM) for infections complicated with hematological disorders in 56 patients.
(11) A study was conducted in a sample of 140 children with sickle cell anemia to evaluate the relationship between hematological variables (%HbF, %HbA2, %Hb, and mean cell volume) and disease severity.
(12) Adverse hematologic effects which could be attributed to splenectomy in these patients were confined to two patients who developed marked thrombocytosis.
(13) Despite the presence of splenic myeloid metaplasia, splenectomy did not impair the patient's hematologic status.
(14) Hematologic indices in wolves older than 24 weeks were comparable to those of the adult domestic dog; however, PCV, hemoglobin concentration, and RBC counts were higher.
(15) Such properties, as assessed by the H*1 hematology analyzer, are very useful in distinguishing these two common types of microcytic anemia.
(16) A non-randomized study was carried out in the Free University Hospital, Amsterdam, to investigate the (hematologic) toxicity and antitumor response of patients with advanced breast cancer treated with intensive chemotherapy in combination with granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF).
(17) In contrast to the generally grave clinical manifestations of the patients described in previous publications documenting erythrophagocytosis, this patient lacked a concomitant hematologic deterioration or serious systemic illness.
(18) Hematological side effects of neuroleptic drugs occur infrequently but remain a potential cause of serious toxicity.
(19) Hematologic toxicity was comparable in both treatment arms, with 80% of patients experiencing grade 3 or 4 neutropenia or thrombocytopenia.
(20) The diagnosis has usually been made only at autopsy, and early surgical intervention has often been withheld because of the patient's precarious hematological status.