Blood Disorders Facts

Many blood disorders are hard to diagnose, but they are sometimes easily treated if diagnosed correctly. Diagnosing blood disorders requires blood tests to count the number of blood cells you have and in some cases a bone marrow biopsy for a more definitive diagnosis. Blood disorders can be malignant (cancer) or non-malignant.

Malignant Blood Disorders:

• Leukemia
• Lymphoma
• Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia (or Lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma)
• Multiple myeloma
• Myelodysplastic syndromes
• Myeloproliferative neoplasms
  • Essential thrombocytosis
  • Myelofibrosis
  • Polycythemia vera
• Other Lymphoproliferative Neoplasms 
  • Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD) 
  • Large granular lymphocytic (LGL) leukemia

Non-malignant Blood Disorders:

• Amyloidosis 
• Anemia
  • Aplastic anemia
  • Congenital anemias and bone marrow failure syndromes
    • Fanconi Anemia
  • Hemolytic anemia
  • Hereditary spherocytosis
  • Iron-deficiency anemia
  • Pernicious anemia
     
• Bleeding disorders/Hemophilia 
  • Hemophilia A
  • Hemophilia B
  • Von Willebrand Disease
     
• Gaucher disease 
• Hemochromatosis 
• Hemoglobinopathies
  • Sickle cell anemia
  • Thalassemias
     
• Langerhans cell histiocytosis
• Hypereosinophilia/Hypereosinophilic syndrome
• Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP)
• Inherited Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes
• Leukopenia
• Mastocytosis
• Monoclongal gammopathies
• Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria
• Porphyria
• Thrombocytopenia
• Thrombocytosis
• Thrombophlebitis (Deep vein Thrombosis, DVT)
• Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (TTP)