Hematology involves the diagnosis and care of diseases and disorders relating to the blood, spleen, and lymph glands. These include conditions such as anemia, clotting disorders, sickle cell disease, hemophilia, leukemia, and lymphoma, as well as special types of transfusions and bone marrow biopsies.
Physicians in this specialty treat patients suffering from numerous diseases and illnesses, but some of the most common are AIDS, hemophilia, Myelomas, Evans' syndrome, Malaria, lymphoma, Leukemia, Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Sickle-cell disease, Myeloma, Pernicious anemia, Thalassemia, Thrombocytopenia, Hodgkin's disease, Infectious mononucleosis, Agranulocytosis, Myelofibrosis, Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), Autoimmune hemolytic anemia, and Megaloblastic anemia.
Once properly diagnosed, practitioners can perform numerous procedures on patients including Chemotherapy, radiotherapy, blood transfusion, Bone marrow transplant, Intramuscular injections, Anticoagulation therapy, and Venesection.
To diagnose patients with possible illnesses and diseases, specialists will often perform one of many tests including Coombs test, Bone marrow biopsy, D-dimer, Prothrombin time, Protein electrophoresis, Hemoglobin electrophoresis, Blood film, serum Ferritin level, Vitamin B12 and Folate levels, Erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), Full blood count, and Partial thromboplastin time.
Doctor density varies by specialty and location. The United States has 8,532 practicing hematologists. Broken out by state, hematology doctor density in Alabama is 92, in Alaska is 13, in Arizona is 129, in Arkansas is 57, in California is 932, in Colorado is 119, in Connecticut is 159, in Delaware is 24, in District of Columbia is 100, in Florida is 555, in Georgia is 212, in Hawaii is 34, in Idaho is 22, in Illinois is 455, in Indiana is 162, in Iowa is 78, in Kansas is 54, in Kentucky is 100, in Louisiana is 104, in Maine is 57, in Maryland is 212, in Massachusetts is 418, in Michigan is 264, in Minnesota is 222, in Mississippi is 52, in Missouri is 153, in Montana is 23, in Nebraska is 54, in Nevada is 54, in New Hampshire is 44, in New Jersey is 347, in New Mexico is 56, in New York is 939, in North Carolina is 270, in North Dakota is 24, in Ohio is 338, in Oklahoma is 60, in Oregon is 112, in Pennsylvania is 550, in Rhode Island is 58, in South Carolina is 90, in South Dakota is 15, in Tennessee is 186, in Texas is 570, in Utah is 72, in Vermont is 21, in Virginia is 194, in Washington is 186, in West Virginia is 58, in Wisconsin is 165, and in Wyoming is 9.
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