This unique book is written by Barbara Bain, a leading haematologist with a reputation for her educational prowess in the field. It provides a concise overview of the diseases and focuses on the selection, performance, and interpretation of the results of tests that should be offered by all but the very specialist referral centres. Where more specialist tests are required, the reader isgiven
an overview of what the specialist centre will do, with guidance on what the result will imply. This book is extremely practical in orientation and it will become an essential reference volume in the
general haematology laboratory.

INDICE; 1. Haemoglobin and the genetics of globin chain synthesis 2. Laboratory techniques for the identification of normal and variant
haemoglobins 3.a, b, g, and d thalassaemias and related conditions 4. Sickle cell haemoglobin and its interactions with other variant haemoglobins and with thalassaemias5. Other clinically significant haemoglobinopathies 6. Acquired defects of globin chain synthesis or haemoglobin structure 7. Organisation of a haemoglobinopathy service 8. Self-assessment - test cases.