In a review published in 1983, an attempt was made to highlight the rheumatological aspects of diseases generally regarded as haematological in origin.' Since then, a variety of reports have served to strengthen the links between these two areas of medicine. In this review, we consider these more recent reports and focus on patient presentation, advances in treatment, and knowledge of underlyin...

problems generated by these pollutants to be more and more acute as time goes by. This book, edited by Miller and Berg, is a compilation of the proceedings of a conference held at the University of Rochester to collect and consider such scattered accumulated data. The chapters represent individual contributions by the authors at the conference. Each chapter contains references and a summarized ...

Background: β-Thalassaemia syndromes are a group of hereditary disorders characterised by a genetic deficiency in the synthesis of β-globin chains due to a defect in β-globin genes. The objective of this study was to determine the haematological features of β-thalassaemia trait (BTT), and to determine the sensitivity of Mean Corpuscular Volume (MCV), Mean Corpuscular Haemoglobin (MCH) and Mentz...