Hematology

Specializing in the diagnosis and management of  hematological (blood) disorders, the Hematology Practice at Children’s Hospital Central California provides consultations 24 hours a day. We provide care for a large pediatric patient population with iron deficiencies, Thalassemia and Fanconi Anemia. Currently, we are treating 9 Diamond-Blackfan Anemia patients.

Our team provides blood transfusions, platelet transfusions and immune-globulin infusions onsite for our pediatric patients who require these regiments.

Our Hemophilia Treatment Center is involved in the Center for Disease Control’s ongoing Universal Data Collection project, which benefits our bleeding disorder population. The Center has participated in the blood safety and surveillance study since 2001. 

Children’s Hematology Department, in cooperation with Children’s Hospital Oakland, is offering some of the newest treatments available for thalassemia, sickle cell disease, and iron-overload.

Services Offered & Conditions Treated

Blood Disorders

• Anemias
• Diamond-Blackfan Anemia (DBA)
• Iron deficiency
• Hereditary spherocytosis
• Thalassemia
• Sickle cell anemia
• Thrombocytopenia:
• Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP):
• Bleeding Disorders:
• von Willebrand disease
• Hemophilia
• Neutropenia
• Bone Marrow Failure:
• Aplastic anemia
• Fanconi anemia
• Bone marrow transplant
• Hematopoietic stem cell transplants
• Histiocytic disorders
• White cell disorders
• Abnormalities of platelet function
• Hemophilia variants
• Inhibitor patients
• Enzyme defects
• Transfusional iron overload
• Lead poisoning
• Thrombopilia (hypercoagulation syndrome)

Diagnostic Services

• Full service Hematology Laboratory

Expertise

• Providing primary care hematology:
• ITPs
• Iron deficiencies
• Diamond-Blackfan Anemia (DBA)
• Fanconi anemia
• Thalassemia

Expiditing patient care

• In-house coags
• In-house services:
• Collaboration with our pediatric pathologists
• Phelobotmist
• Experienced Hematology team primary care physicians trust when referring kids to Children’s

Pediatric Research

• We are involved in the Center for Disease Control’s blood safety and surveillance study, which benefits our bleeding disorder population.
• Our Hematology Department, in cooperation with Children’s Hospital Oakland, is offering some of the newest treatments available for thalassemia, sickle cell disease, and iron-overload.

Multidisciplinary Services

• Rheumatology/Immunology:
• Chronic ITPs
• Immunodeficiencies:
• Patients who are neutropenic
• Recurrent infections
• Lupus
• Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome
• Neurology:
• Patients who have had a stroke
• Nephrology:
• Post transplant patients with renal insufficiency 
• Gastroenterology:
• Various gastroenterology conditions accompanied with bleeding
• Orthopaedics:
• Hemophelia patients that have fractures or broken bones
• Oncology:
• Leukemia
• Genetics:
• Patients with suspected or confirmed inherited conditions
• Emergency Department:
• Iron deficiency
• Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP)
• Low platelets
• Pathology:
• We work closely with our pediatric pathologists