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HAEMATOLOGY & BLOOD BANK

General enquiry

(Haematology)

Tel: (852) 2255 3152

Fax: (852) 2255 3736

(Blood bank)

Tel: (852) 2255 4128

Fax: (852) 2819 3487

The Haematology section of the Department of Pathology is located at LG-2, Block K of Queen Mary Hospital, which is situated at the beautiful southern part of the Hong Kong Island. It provides a comprehensive range of haematology tests as well as consultative service for the whole territory.

The Haematology Laboratory and associated Queen Mary Hospital Blood Bank are committed to quality patient care by provision of rapid and accurate laboratory service.

Staff
CBP Bench
Coagulation Bench
Special (Red cell disorders) Bench
Marrow and Cell Marker Bench
Cytogenetics Bench
Molecular Haematology Bench
Blood Bank
Research activities

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Staff

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CBP Bench

This provides a 24-hour service to the hospital. Our laboratory is equipped with state-of-the-art multi-channel automated blood counters. Currently we are receiving more than 1200 requests for Complete Blood Picture daily. Other related service includes Cell counts & Microscopy on Body Fluids and 24-hour Malaria screening & species identification.

The Haematology Outpatient service operated during the office hours provides CBP on capillary blood for patients of several QMH clinics prior to their clinical consultation.

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Coagulation Bench

Routine coagulation tests:

PT, APTT, TT, fibrinogen, D-dimers

By special arrangement in the investigation of patients with bleeding or thrombosis:

• Factor Assays
• Inhibitor Screening/Assays
• Von Willebrand's Disease studies
• Platelet Function Tests
• Fibrinolysis Studies
• Lupus Anticoagulant
• Thrombophilia Studies

Consultation for special diagnostic workup for bleeding with thrombotic disorders is also offered. Please contact Clinical Pathologist for booking.

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Special (Red cell) Bench

• Methaemalbumin
• Vitamin B₁₂ and Folate assays
• Erythropoietin assays
• Ham's and Sucrose Lysis Tests
• Haemoglobinpathy studies
• Enzymopathy: G6PD screening & quantitation, PK assay
• Osmotic fragility and Autohaemolysis tests
  

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Marrow and Cell Marker Bench

Routine: Marrow aspirates for morphology, cytochemistry evaluation.

By special arrangement: Immunophenotyping using flow cytometry or immunoenzymatic methods in the study of acute leukaemias and lymphomas, diagnosis of PNH and DNA ploidy analyses.

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Cytogenetics Bench

Provides conventional karyotypic & FISH analysis for haemic malignancies, which is essential in the diagnosis, monitoring of treatment and prognosis.

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Molecular Haematology Bench

• α-thalassaemia genotyping
• β-thalassaemia genotyping
• Chinese type delta beta thalassaemia mutation detection
• Leukaemia - Molecular analysis
• JAK2 kinase mutation
• BCR-ABL qPCR
• BCR-ABL RT-PCR

Diagnosis of thalassaemia mutations using molecular biology techniques.

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Queen Mary Hospital Blood Bank

The Queen Mary Hospital Blood Bank provides 24-hour blood banking service to Queen Mary Hospital and the cluster hospitals which include Tung Wah Hospital, Grantham Hospital, Fung Yiu King Hospital and Duchess of Kent Children Hospital.

The service includes:

• provision of compatible blood units and blood components,
• Autologous transfusion,
• blood grouping (Type) and antibody screening (Screen),
• red blood cell antibody investigation, including investigation of suspected transfusion reactions and haemolytic disease of the newborn,
• other immuno-haematology tests, including serological follow-up for patients undergoing bone marrow transplantation, and
• liaison with the Hong Kong Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service concerning special transfusion requirements and investigations.

QMH blood bank is the first to employ a type and screen procedure in combination with electronic cross-match in Hong Kong. The medical staff of the Haematology and Blood Bank Section also provides consultative service regarding matters in transfusion medicine.

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Research activities

Queen Mary Hospital is a tertiary referral centre for patients with haematological disorders including patients referred for bone marrow transplantation. It is also the teaching hospital of the medical faculty of the University of Hong Kong. Both academic staff and the honorary teachers are actively engaged in research. Students have been and are being trained at the M Phil and PhD levels.

Ongoing research projects include cloning & characterisation of a novel MLL partner gene in acute leukaemia, molecular epidemiology of childhood ALL, evaluation of cytogenetics as a prognostic marker in AML, applications of flow cytometry in bone marrow and stem cells transplantation, clinical and molecular analysis of thrombophilia in Chinese subjects and genotype-phenotype correlation of ß-thalassaemia in Hong Kong Chinese.

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Last Modified: 04-May-2012