Neuro-hematology is study of the variations in the composition of the blood occurring in diseases of the nervous system.
A wide spectrum of hematologic disorders causes the central and peripheral nervous system. These disorders include like
- Porphyria
- Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura-hemolytic uremic syndromes
- Sickle cell disease
- Plasma cell dyscrasias
- Monoclonal gammopathy
- Primary systemic amyloidosis
- Primary systemic amyloidosis
- Waldonstrom’s macroglobulinemia
- Myeloproliferative syndromes
- Cryoglobulinemia, and polycythemia vera
Some, like porphyria, cause both central and peripheral nervous system manifestations containing sensory/motor peripheral neuropathy, dysautonomia, pain, seizures, and abdominal pain.
Others such as sickle cell disease primarily affect the brain and cause both clinically apparent strokes associated with a vasculopathy of large intracranial blood vessels, as well as a smaller amount obvious micro strokes that cause progressive cognitive decline if not treated.
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