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What is Blood conditions?

What is Blood conditions?

• Blood conditions: Conditions that affect the blood.
• Blood conditions: pregnancy induced hypertensive states, including EPH gestosis when edema and proteinuria accompany hypertension; other hypertensive disorders that develop during pregnancy or the puerperium are preeclampsia and eclampsia, either of which may be superimposed upon chronic hypertensive vascular or renal disease.
  Source - Diseases Database
• Blood conditions: a disease or disorder of the blood.
  Source - WordNet 2.1

Blood conditions: Introduction

Types of Blood conditions:

Types of Blood conditions:

• Anemia
  • Iron deficiency anemia
  • Sickle cell anemia
  • Cooley's anemia
  • Aplastic anemia
• Clotting disorders
• Hemophilia
• Porphyria
• Leukemia
• Purpura
• Viral Hemorragic Fevers
• Hemochromatosis
• Amyloidosis
• Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia
• Autoimmune Hemophilia
• Autoimmune Lymphoproliferative Syndrome
• Autoimmune Thrombocytopenia
• Bacteremia
• Balance disorders
• Bleeding disorders
• Circulatory disorder
• Classic Distal Renal Tubular Acidosis
• Dialysis-related amyloidosis
• Favism
• Hemolytic disease of the newborn
• Hemolytic uremic syndrome
• High Cholesterol
• Hypercalcemia
• Hyperkalemia
• Hyperkalemic Renal Tubular Acidosis
• Hypoglycemia
• Hypokalemia
• Hypotension
• Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura
• Iron deficiency
• Jaundice
• Meningococcal disease
• Multiple Myeloma
• Myeloma
• Pernicious anemia
• Primary amyloidosis
• Proximal Renal Tubular Acidosis
• Pulmonary hypertension
• Renal Tubular Acidosis
• Septicemia
• Sickle Cell Anemia
• Thalassemia
• Thrombocytopenia
• Thrombosis
• Von Willebrand disease
• Acidosis
• Alkalosis
• Hyperinsulinemia
• Hypertension
• Polycythemia
• Blood pressure disorders
  • Eclampsia
  • Orthostatic hypotension
  • Preeclampsia
  • Shock
• Methaemoglobinaemia
• more types...»

Broader types of Blood conditions:

• All Disease Categories
• Blood vessel conditions
• Circulatory disorder
• more types...»

How serious is Blood conditions?

Complications of Blood conditions: see complications of Blood conditions
Deaths for Blood conditions: 8,733 deaths (NHLBI 1999)

What causes Blood conditions?

Causes of Blood conditions: see causes of Blood conditions
Risk factors for Blood conditions: see risk factors for Blood conditions

What are the symptoms of Blood conditions?

Symptoms of Blood conditions: see symptoms of Blood conditions

Complications of Blood conditions: see complications of Blood conditions

Blood conditions: Testing

Diagnostic testing: see tests for Blood conditions.

Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Blood conditions.

How is it treated?

Treatments for Blood conditions: see treatments for Blood conditions
Research for Blood conditions: see research for Blood conditions

Society issues for Blood conditions

Costs of Blood conditions: $9.7 billion with $7.1b direct, $0.7b morbidity, $1.9b mortality (NHLBI 2002)
Hospitalizations for Blood conditions: 368,000 (NHLBI 1999)

Hospitalization statistics for Blood conditions: The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Blood conditions:

• 15,240 admissions to private hospitals for procedures on blood and blood-forming organs in Australia 2001-02 (AIHW National Hospital Morbidity Database, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
• 201,355 patient days spent in public hospitals for procedures on blood and blood-forming organs in Australia 2001-02 (AIHW National Hospital Morbidity Database, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
• 25,076 admissions to public hospitals for procedures on blood and blood-forming organs in Australia 2001-02 (AIHW National Hospital Morbidity Database, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
• 31.6% of hospitalisations for procedures on blood and blood-forming organ were single day in private hospitals in Australia 2001-02 (AIHW National Hospital Morbidity Database, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
• 36.0% of hospitalisations for procedures on blood and blood-forming organs were single day in public hospitals in Australia 2001-02 (AIHW National Hospital Morbidity Database, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
• 78,513 patient days spent in private hospitals were for procedures on blood and blood-forming organ in Australia 2001-02 (AIHW National Hospital Morbidity Database, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
• more statistics...»

Physician office visits for Blood conditions: 3,365,000 (NHLBI 1999)

Organs Affected by Blood conditions:

Organs and body systems related to Blood conditions include:

• Blood
• Blood vessels

Name and Aliases of Blood conditions

Main name of condition: Blood conditions

Other names or spellings for Blood conditions:

Blood disorders, Blood diseases

Gestosis [preeclampsia], PET [preeclampsia], Pre-eclamptic toxaemia [preeclampsia], Preeclampsia [preeclampsia] Source - Diseases Database

Blood disorder, Blood disease
Source - WordNet 2.1

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• Radiotherapy
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