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MEDICAL JOURNAL

Volume - 6, Number - 2April - June 2017

pISSN NO. 2277 - 8845 l eISSN NO. 2278 - 2044

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In this issueAutoimmune Hemolytic Anemia

Plasma Cell Disorders

Pancytopenia - A Physician’s Perspective

Iron Deficiency Anemia - Overview

Acquired Hemoglobin Disorders

CHETMEDICON 2017 - Abstracts

Oral Paper presentation

Poster presentation

CHETMEDICON - 2017Special Issue

RECENT ADVANCES IN HEMATOLOGICALABNORMALITIES AND MANAGEMENT

(RAHAM)

Date : 19th August 2017

Venue : Chettinad Hospital & Research Institute

CHETMEDICON - 2017

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Chief EditorDr. N. Pandiyan

Deputy Chief EditorsDr. V. G. Ramesh

Dr. Pradeep G. Nayar

EditorsDr. D. C. Mathangi

Dr. Sanjay Theodore

Dr. V. Anitha

National EditorsDr. Dalim Kumar BaidyaAIIMS, New Delhi.

Dr. Suresh NairSri Chitra Institute of Medical Sciences & Technology, Thiruvananthapuram.

Dr. Vedantam RajshekharCMC,Vellore.

Dr. K.A.AbrahamApollo Hospitals, Chennai.

Dr. P.B.SeshagiriIISc, Bangalore.

Dr. Satish Kumar AdigaManipal University, Manipal.

Dr. M. BalasubramanyamMadras Diabetes Research Foundation

Dr. A.G.Narayana SwamySaveetha Medical College, Chennai.

Dr. K.JaishankarMadras Medical Mission, Chennai.

Dr.Thilaka MuthiahAIIMS, New Delhi.

Ms.T.PrathimaManipal University, Manipal.

Dr. M. Narayana Reddy

Dr. D. Rajasekaran

Dr. A. Ruckmani

Dr. Sanjay Andrew Rajaratnam

Dr. B. Srinivasan

Dr. M. S. Srinivasan

Dr. Stephen Sudhakar

Dr. L. Uma Devi

Dr. Vasantha N Subbiah

Dr. R. Vijayashree

Mrs. Veena M Joseph

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International EditorsDr. Jayant G Mehta,BHR University Hospitals NHS Trust, UK

Dr. Sudha Sundar,University of Birmingham, UK

Dr. Ram Dhillon,Middlesex University, UK

Dr. Malini Moni,Johns Hopkins University, USA

Dr. Sandro EstevesAndrology & Human Reproduction Clinic, Brazil

Dr. Shankar GopinathBaylor College of Medicine, USA.

Dr. Arun ChandranUniversity of Florida, USA.

Dr. R. Arun Kumar

Dr. R. Ganesan

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Dr. S. B. Jothi Ramalingam

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Dr. Lailu Mathews

Dr. E. Malligai

Dr. C. Manohar

Dr. N. Meenakshi

Dr. R. Murali

Dr. Nagajothi

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Contents

EditorialRajasekaran D

Review ArticleAutoimmune Hemolytic Anemia Durga Krishnan, Noorul Ameen S, Aravind CS, Balaji R

Plasma Cell DisordersLanord Stanley Jawahar M, Ananthkumar PK, Anitha A

Pancytopenia - A Physician’s PerspectiveMayilananthi K, Sarah P, Ramprasath A

Iron Deficiency Anemia- OverviewUdayashankar D, Sarah P, Indrani N, Nagajothi

Acquired Hemoglobin DisordersVigneshwaran J, Thuvaragah P, Gorgya Sampathkumar

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