The text book Blombäcks Essential Guide to Blood Coagulation is now launched
A new edition of the book "Essential Guide to Blood Coagulation". The first edition was published in Swedish in 1997. Since 2010, the book has been published in English and has become a valued source of quick information about coagulation conditions, investigation and treatment.
In honor of the editor of the first edition, Professor Emerita Margareta Blombäck, the book is now renamed Blombäck's Essential Guide to Blood Coagulation. The content has been updated with new investigation and treatment options.
Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital have a long tradition of coagulation research that began with Erik Jorpe's (1894-1973) research on heparin.
"Professor Blombäck was actually Erik Jorpe's doctoral student, and she became one of several pioneers in our field of coagulation, which has contributed to Sweden's strong role in the field", says Jovan Antovic, one of the editors of the new edition.
The book Blombäck Essential Guide to Blood Coagulation is one of few medical textbooks in English written entirely by Swedish authors. Coagulation is a relatively small medical field, but still has great importance in practice because it affects so many conditions and diseases.
The editors of the new edition are Maria Magnusson and Jovan Antovic, both at the clinical chemistry and blood coagulation research group, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet All 24 co-authors representing 15 different medical specialties are all doctorate specialists working at Karolinska University Hospital.
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All authors have a PhD and are affiliated with Karolinska Institutet, seven co-authors are from the Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery. From left: Joel Olm Dept Medicine Solna, Anna Sjöström Dept Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Andreas Andersson Dept Physiology and Pharmacology, Maria Farma Dept Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Maria M Sennström Dept Women's and Children's Health, Lars Mikael Broman Dept Physiology and Pharmacology, Maria Magnusson Dept Molecular Medicine and Surgery and Dept Clinical Science Intervention and Technology and Jovan P Antovic Dept Molecular Medicine and Surgery - these two are the book's editors; Susanna Ranta Dept Women's and Children's Health, Moa Simonsson Dept Medicine Solna, Aleksandra Antovic Dept Medicine Solna, Roza Chaireti Dept Molecular Medicine and Surgery and Dept Medicine Solna, Cecilia Karlström Dept Medicine Huddinge and Margareta Holmström Dept Medicine Solna.
Authors missing in the picture: Peter Barany Dept Clinical Science Intervention and Technology, Franceska Faustini Dept Medicine Solna, Tony Frisk Dept Women's and Children's Health, Charlotte Gran Dept Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Michael V Mazya Dept Clinical Neuroscience, Michael Nekludov Dept Physiology and Pharmacology, Per Stål Dept Medicine Huddinge, Bianca Tessi Dept Molecular Medicine and Surgery and Dept Medicine Huddinge, Carl Magnus Wahlgren Dept Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Agneta Wikman Dept Medicine Huddinge.