Patient Information – fact sheets and resources covering a range of blood related medical conditions, their diagnosis, treatment and management.
Idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura (ITP) is a condition that causes low platelets. Platelets are small cells that circulate in the blood that are responsible for preventing bleeding and bruising. Patients with low platelets are at risk of bruising and rarely, serious bleeding.
read moreNeutropenia is the medical term for a decrease in the number of white blood cells called neutrophils.
read moreIdiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura (ITP) is a condition that causes low platelets. Platelets are small cells that circulate in the blood that are responsible for preventing bleeding and bruising. Patients with low platelets are at risk of bruising and rarely, serious bleeding.
read moreChronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia (CLL) – type of slow growing leukaemia that affects the white blood cell B-lymphocytes
read moreFull Blood Count – a blood test that is often done to assess the number and type of cells that circulate in the bloodstream. The three main types of cells that circulate in the blood are: red cells, white cells and platelets
read moreChronic Myeloid Leukaemia (CML) – a malignancy of the white cells of the bone marrow and blood.
read moreMGUS (monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance)
read moreMyelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS) – a group of bone marrow diseases characterised by an increase or (usually) decreased production of normal blood cells by the bone marrow
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