Hematologist ·
Medical Park Goztepe Hospital , Istanbul, Turkey
20 Years of experience ·
Languages Spoken: Turkish , English
There are different kinds of conditions that Dr. Gulsun Karasu treats and we have listed some of them here for your perusal.:
These doctors are known to manage the treatment of blood disorders and those of the lymphatic system i.e., vessels and lymph nodes. Your primary care physician refers you to a Hematologist even when you are suffering from the three cancers i.e., Leukemia, Multiple Myeloma and Lymphoma. It is also for issues related to hemoglobin and red blood cells such as thalassemia, anemia and sickle cell anemia that this doctor can be consulted.
Signs and symptoms because of which there is a possibility of consulting a Hematologist are as follows:
A consultation with this doctor might become a necessity when their are symptoms like persistent fatigue, fever, night sweats.. Symptoms like shortness in breathing and weight loss that cannot be unexplained away by natural reasons can be a direction for you to visit a hematologist. It is wise to not let your health condition worsen and visit a hematologist at the earliest.
The doctor is available for consultation and operation from 9 am to 1 pm on Sunday and from 9 am to 6 pm from Monday to Saturday. The doctor's strength is in the varied and indepth experience, being well educated, skills and expertise.
The patients are being operated upon with the following popular procedures by Dr. Gulsun Karasu.
The specialty of the doctor is to provide treatment to people for blood disorders and procedures refer to these. Abnormal tissue is removed through cold, lasers, heat or chemicals and the procedures so performed are called Ablation therapy. Blood transfusions and bone marrow transplants are also their area of specialty,
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Lymphatic system disorders and blood disorders are the conditions that a Hematologist researches and diagnoses. It is a Hematologist who resolves your issues with blood, bone marrow and lymphatic system either through medical treatment or procedures. The doctors also work in tandem with some other specialists to manage your condition or to interpret the test results for you. Sepsis, reaction to an infection and a genetic blood clotting disorder like Hemophilia are treated by a Hematologist.
The tests required before and during consultation for a Hematologist are as follows:
Prothrombin time and partial thromboplastin time are tests that check you for clotting and bleeding disorders. The three blood cells, their characteristics and numbers are tracked through a test well known as a complete blood count. Blood disorders, bone marrow disorders, some cancers and infections in the bone marrow can be diagnosed and monitored via bone marrow biopsy.
The doctor recommends tests and basis those tests and consultation, and refers you to a Hematologist in case the symptoms and test results suggest a blood disorder or a condition of the bone marrow or lymphatic system. Please confer with a Hematologist if you are either suffering from sickle cell anemia or anemia. A referral to a Hematologist is imminent when you are suffering from either leukemia, lymphoma, or multiple myeloma (bone marrow, lymph nodes, or white blood cells) cancers Visiting the specialist should not be delayed at all when the symptoms start showing.
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