Haematology is a branch of internal medicine. It deals with diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs.
Important hematologic diseases are, for example
- Anemia
- Malignant diseases of the blood such as acute and chronic leukemia
- malignant changes in the lymph nodes (e.g. Hodgkin’s disease)
- Blood formation disorders of the bone marrow
- disorders of blood clotting, e.g. excessive tendency to clot (thrombophilia) and bleeding disorders (haemophilia)
Important diagnostic procedures in haematology are blood tests, bone marrow punctures (removal and analysis of bone marrow tissue) and lymph node biopsies (removal and analysis of lymph node tissue).
In the treatment of malignant diseases of the blood or haematopoietic system, haematology overlaps with oncology and transplant medicine.
