Biology of Disease

Further Reading

Bhagavan, NV (2002) Medical Biochemistry, 4th edn, Harcourt Academic Press,
San Diego.

Campbell, K (2004) Pathophysiology of anaemia. Nurs.Times100: 40–43.

Catlin, AJ (2003) Thalassemia: the facts and the controversies. Pediatr. Nurs.
29: 447–449.

Clark, BE and Thein, SL (2004) Molecular diagnosis of haemoglobin disorders.
Clin. Lab. Haematol.26: 159–176.

Claster, S and Vichinsky, EP (2003) Managing sickle cell disease. BMJ327:
1151–1155.

Dame, C and Sutor, AH (2005) Primary and secondary thrombocytosis in
childhood.Br. J. Haematol.129: 165–177.

Dhaliwal, G, Cornett, PA and Tierney, LM (2004) Hemolytic anemia. Am. Fam.
Physician69: 2599–2606.

Gottlieb, S (2001) Gene therapy shows promise for haemophilia. BMJ322:
1442.

Hoffbrand, AV and Pettit, JE (2002) Essential Haematology, 4th edn, Blackwell
Science, Oxford.

Howard, MR and Hamilton, P (2002) Haematology. Churchill Livingstone,
London.

Hughes-Jones, NC, Wickramsinghe, SN and Hatton, C (2004) Lecture Notes on
Haematology, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK.

Mannucci, PM and Tuddenham, EGD (2001) The hemophilias – from royal
genes to gene therapy. New Engl. J. Med.344: 1773–1779.

Mehta, A, Mason, PJ and Vulliamy, TJ (2000) Glucose-6-phosphate
dehydrogenase deficiency. Baillière’s Best Pract. Res. Clinical Haematol.13:
21–38.

Potts, DM and Potts, WT (1999) Queen Victoria’s Gene: Haemophilia and the
Royal Family, 2nd edn. Sutton Publishing, NY.

Serjeant, GR (2005) Mortality from Sickle cell disease in Africa. BMJ330: 432–
433.

Stuart, MJ and Nagel, RL (2004) Sickle-cell disease. Lancet364: 1343–1360.

Vidler, V (2004) Haemophilia. Br. J. Perioper. Nurs.14: 110–113.

Wajeman, H and Galacteros, F (2005) Hemoglobins with high oxygen affinity
leading to erythrocytosis. New variants and new concepts. Hemoglobin29:
91–106.

Weatherall, DJ (2000) Single gene disorders or complex traits: lessons from the
thalassaemias and other monogenic disorders. BMJ321: 1117–1120.

Working Party of the General Haematology Task Force of the British
Committee for Standards in Haematology (1998) The laboratory diagnosis of
haemoglobinopathies. Br. J. Haematol.101: 783–792.

Useful web sites:

http://academic.sun.ac.za/haema/dept/rbc.htm

http://www.medicine.ox.ac.uk/ohc/

osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/specialcollections/coll/pauling/blood/index.html

FURTHER READING

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