Haematology

The Department of Hematology is a key medical discipline in Hangzhou, a clinical teaching and master’s and doctoral training base for several medical schools including Zhejiang Chinese Medical University and Nanjing Medical University, and a clinical teaching site for Zhejiang University School of Medicine. It serves as a lymphoma diagnosis and treatment center for Hangzhou and a regional specialty center in northern Zhejiang, combining care, teaching and research for blood diseases. It provides standardized diagnosis and treatment of hematologic malignancies including acute and chronic leukemia, malignant lymphoma, multiple myeloma and myelodysplastic syndromes; emergency care for immune cytopenias, bleeding and coagulation disorders and disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC); and evaluation of unexplained fever, leukopenia or thrombocytopenia and anemia. It reports extensive experience rescuing pregnant patients with critical hematologic conditions such as thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura or acute leukemia. It also provides autologous and allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for lymphoma, myeloma, leukemia and aplastic anemia. Staff include one chief physician who is a professor and doctoral supervisor, seven associate chief physicians, three people at doctoral level and five current master’s trainees.