Editors Renu Saxena MD FIMSA
Professor and Head Department of Hematology All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Ansari Nagar,
New Delhi-110029, India
President Indian Society of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine (2009-2010) Delhi Society of Hematology (2005-2007) Fellow International Medical Sciences Academy
Coordinator, ISHTM-AIIMS EQAP Program Ex-Editor, Delhi Society of Hematology, Newsletter
HP Pati MD
Professor Department of Hematology All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Ansari Nagar,
New Delhi-110029, India
General Secretary, Indian Society of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine Senior Specialist, Armed Forces Hospital, Kuwait
Manoranjan Mahapatra MD (MED) FICP FIACM
Associate Professor Department of Hematology All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Ansari Nagar,
New Delhi-110029, India
Fellow of Indian College of Physicians Fellow of Indian Academy of Clinical Medicine Fellow of Indian Society of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine
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5Contributors
- Ajay Gogia md
- Department of Medical Oncology
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences
- Ansari Nagar, New Delhi-110029
- India
- Amit Upadhyay md
- Consultant
- Sunflag Pahuja Center for Blood
- Disorders
- Sunflag Hospital Sector 16A
- Faridabad-121002
- India
- Arijit Biswas phd
- Institute of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine
- Room No. 2.308
- Sigmund Freud Street-25
- Bonn, 53127
- Germany
- Ashok Kumar md
- Director and Head
- Department of Rheumatology
- Fortis Flt Lt Rajan Dhall Hospital
- Vasant Kunj, New Delhi-110070
- India
- Deepak Dabkara md
- Department of Medical Oncology
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences
- Ansari Nagar, New Delhi-110029
- India
- Deepanjan Panda md
- Department of Medical Oncology
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences
- Ansari Nagar, New Delhi-110029
- India
- Gundu HR Rao phd
- Professor
- Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
- Lillehei Heart Institute, MMC 609
- University of Minnesota
- Minneapolis, MN 55455
- USA
- Hemant Gopal md
- Clinical Associate
- Department of Rheumatology
- Fortis Flt Lt Rajan Dhall Hospital
- Vasant Kunj, New Delhi-110070
- India
- HP Pati md
- Professor
- Department of Hematology
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)
- Ansari Nagar, New Delhi-110029
- India
- Kanjaksha Ghosh md mrcp mrcpi
- FRCPath FACP (USA) FICP FAMS FNASc
- Director
- National Institute of Immunohematology (ICMR)
- 13th Floor, NMS Bldg
- KEM Hospital Campus
- Parel, Mumbai-12
- India
- Kevin W Song md frcpc
- Division of Hematology
- Department of Medicine
- Vancouver General Hospital
- Hematology, 10th Floor, 2775 Laurel
- St Vancouver, British Columbia
- Canada
- Lalit Kumar md
- Department of Medical Oncology
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences
- Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital
- Room 245, Ansari Nagar
- New Delhi-110029
- India
- Manoranjan Mahapatra md (Med) ficp
- FIACM
- Associate Professor
- Department of Hematology
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences
- Ansari Nagar, New Delhi-110029
- India
- Matthew D Seftel mbchb mph mrcp frcpc
- Section of Hematology/Oncology
- Department of Internal Medicine
- University of Manitoba
- Winnipeg, Manitoba
- Canada
- MB Agarwal md
- Department of Hematology
- Bombay Hospital Institute of Medical Sciences
- Mumbai
- India
- Neelam Varma md
- Professor and Head
- Departments of Internal Medicine and Hematology
- Postgraduate Institute of Medical
- Education and Research (PGIMER)
- Chandigarh
- India
- Neelam Marwaha md fams fishtm
- Department of Transfusion Medicine
- Postgraduate Institute of Medical
- Education and Research
- Chandigarh
- India
- Niranjan Rathod md
- Seniror Resident (Academic)
- Department of Hematology
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences
- Ansari Nagar, New Delhi-110029
- India
- Prashant Sharma md dm
- Senior Resident and DM Student
- Hematology Department
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences
- Ansari Nagar, New Delhi-110029
- India
- Rajat Kumar md (Med) dnb (Med)
- FRCP (London) FRCP (Edin) FRCPC
- Professor
- University of Manitoba
- CancerCare Manitoba
- 675 McDermot Avenue, Winnipge
- MB R3E 0V9
- Canada
- Ravi Ranjan phd
- Department of Hematology
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences
- Ansari Nagar, New Delhi-110029
- India
- Renu Saxena md fimsa
- Professor and Head
- Department of Hematology
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences
- (AIIMS)
- Ansari Nagar, New Delhi-110029
- India
- S Varma md
- Departments of Internal Medicine and Hematology
- Postgraduate Institute of Medical
- Education and Research (PGIMER)
- Chandigarh
- India
- Sanjeev Kumar Gupta md dm
- Department of Hematology
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences
- Ansari Nagar, New Delhi-110029
- India
- Seema Tyagi md
- Associate Professor
- Department of Hematology
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences
- Ansari Nagar, New Delhi-110029
- India
- Shyam Rathi md dm
- Senior Resident (Academic)
- Department of Hematology
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences
- Ansari Nagar, New Delhi-110029
- India
- Suhail Akhter msc
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences
- Room No 154, Department of Hematology, 1st Floor, IRCH Building
- AIIMS, Ansari Nagar
- New Delhi-110029
- India
- Tulika Seth md
- Assistant Professor Hematology
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences
- Ansari Nagar, New Delhi-110029
- India
- Tuphan Kanti Dolai md dm
- Assistant Professor
- Department of Hematology
- NRS Medical College, Kolkata-14
- India
- VP Choudhry md
- Director
- Sunflat Pahuja Center for Blood Disorders
- Sunflag Hospital Sector 16A
- Faridabad-121002
- Director
- Hematology Department
- Paras Hospital, Gurgaon
- India
The Recent Advances in Hematology-3 offers the state-of-the-art chapters by distinguished experts in the field. The contributors have critically examined and analyzed into perspective some of the contemporary advances and developments and rising torrent of valuable literature of various aspects of hematology. These are unique in providing the depth and breadth of knowledge as also a stimulus for further discussion and future research.
We are indeed grateful to our distinguished contributors for readily responding to our requests and reposing confidence in our editorship.
Thanks are also due to our Advisory Editorial Board for helping us in the editorial matters and attending promptly to our requests and queries.
Finally, we express our indebtedness to M/s Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd, New Delhi, India and their staff for the skillful production qualities of the volume.
Renu Saxena
HP Pati
Manoranjan Mahapatra