Blood Disorders in Adults :
Blood disorders in adults comprise a wide range of diseases affecting the functioning of blood and also its components which perform regular activities. Blood disorders in adults are cancerous or non cancerous. The common types of blood disorders in adults include clotting disorders like antiphospholipid syndrome and prothrombin gene mutation, anemia, bleeding disorders like inherited hemophilia, von Willebrand disease and thrombocytopenia, myelodysplastic syndromes, autoimmune blood disorders and blood cancers like leukemia, lymphoma and multiple myeloma. The presenting complaints of blood disorders in adults are shortness of breath, fatigue and weakness, pale skin, bleeding, easy bruising, frequent infections, swollen lymph nodes, bone and joint pain and unexplained weight loss. The management of these blood disorders in adults involves various methods like medications, stem cell transplants, blood transfusions, growth factors and chemotherapy.






