Blood Disorders in Adults :
Blood disorders in adults encompass a wide range of conditions impairing the regular functioning of blood and its components. Depending on their nature, blood disorders in adults are categorized as cancerous or non cancerous types. The most prevalent types of blood disorders in adults are anemia, clotting disorders like prothrombin gene mutation and antiphospholipid syndrome, autoimmune blood disorders, myelodysplastic syndromes, bleeding disorders like von Willebrand disease, inherited hemophilia and thrombocytopenia and blood cancers like multiple myeloma, leukemia and lymphoma. Blood disorders in adults induce significant signs such as shortness of breath, pale skin, fatigue and weakness, frequent infections, unexplained weight loss, easy bruising and bleeding, swollen lymph nodes and bone and joint pain. The treatment plan to deal with these blood disorders in adults includes medications, blood transfusions, stem cell transplants, chemotherapy, and growth factors.






