Blood Disorders

Blood disorders affect the way your body produces and uses blood. Trinity Health Of New England is one of the few programs in Connecticut with an expert team specializing in these issues. We treat a broad range of conditions, including bleeding disorders and abnormal blood counts, so you can get back to your busy life.

Providers Who Specialize In Treating Blood Disorders

Some people worry about what seeing a cancer specialist may mean about their health. You receive care from a team of experts who specialize in the treatment of both blood disorders and cancer. 

But you can breathe a little easier knowing that many blood disorders are noncancerous. One of the reasons our cancer providers treat blood disorders is that they often involve similar treatments. Chemotherapy uses different types of drugs to destroy abnormal cells, both cancerous and noncancerous.

Blood Disorder Treatment: Why Choose Trinity Health Of New England?

Our hematologist-oncologists have special training in preventing, diagnosing and treating blood disorders. All of them are board certified in hematology meaning they passed rigorous exams demonstrating their expertise.
 

Highlights of our program include:

• Personalized treatment plan: We treat a high volume of common and complex blood disorders enabling us to tailor therapies for excellent results. Your care plan reflects your diagnosis, family history and other medical conditions. And if your needs change, we adjust treatments to help you continue feeling your best.
• Focus on prevention: We deliver timely care that lowers your risk of complications. We use medications and other substances to decrease unnecessary blood loss in people with bleeding disorders.

Comfortable treatment facilities: We use infusions, a method for delivering fluids, medications and blood products through a vein in your arm, to treat many blood disorders. Some of our infusion centers have been recently renovated with heated treatment chairs and space for loved ones to stay with you.

Noncancerous Blood Disorders We Treat

Conditions we treat include:

• Anemia, red blood cell levels that are abnormally low
• Autoimmune blood disorders such as immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP)
• Bleeding disorders, in which the body has difficulty forming clots to stop bleeding
• Blood disorders in pregnant women, including anemia and clotting disorders
• Deep vein thrombosis (DVT), blood clots in veins that are not near the heart, such as in your legs
• Immune deficiencies requiring intravenous immune globulin (IVIG) infusions
• Leukopenia, white blood cell levels that are abnormally low
• Nutritional problems such as iron or B12 deficiencies
• Precancerous conditions such as monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS)
• Thrombocytopenia, platelet cell levels that are abnormally low

Our Anticoagulation Program for Heart and Vascular Disease Patients

Our anticoagulation team provides ongoing care to help people on blood thinners avoid complications. You may need these medications to lower your risk for heart attack or stroke.

Find out more about our cardiovascular program.
 

We perform regular testing to make sure your blood isn’t becoming:

• Too thick, which could lead to blood clots
• Too thin, which increases your risk of bleeding that won’t stop

Treatments for Blood and Bleeding Disorders at Trinity Health Of New England

Your personalized care plan may include:

• Blood transfusions to increase blood cell counts by transferring blood from a healthy donor
• Clotting factors, substances that help you produce proteins necessary for blood clotting
• Dietary changes, consuming foods rich in vitamins and other nutrients that produce blood cells
• Growth factors, proteins that help your body produce blood cells
• Medications such as blood thinners for clotting disorders or steroids if your immune system is overactive
• Vitamins and supplements, such as B12 and folate

Specialized Care for Blood Cancers

Our hematologist-oncologists also care for people with blood cancers, including leukemia,  lymphoma, multiple myeloma and myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). Many of our experts specialize in treating these disorders so you can feel confident that the care you receive is right for your unique needs. Find out more about our cancer care program.

Learn more about our cancer care program
 

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Services vary by cancer care location.