Types of Blood Disorders in Children and Teens

There are many types of blood disorders, which can involve problems with red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, blood vessels, bone marrow, lymph nodes, or the proteins involved in bleeding and clotting.

At our Blood Disorders Center, patients receive care from some of the world’s most experienced pediatric hematologists with deep experience in the conditions we treat, including:

Red blood cell and iron disorders

• Red blood cell disorders overview
• Anemia overview
• Sickle cell disease
• Thalassemia
• Hemolytic disease of the newborn
• Hemolytic anemia
• Spherocytosis
• Iron deficiency anemia
• Hemochromatosis
• Iron refractory iron deficiency anemia (IRIDA)
• Sideroblastic anemia
• Congenital dyserythropoietic anemia
• Pernicious anemia

Bleeding disorders

• Hemophilia
• von Willebrand disease
• Platelet function disorders
• Thrombocytopenia
• Hypofibrinogenemia and dysfibrinogenemia

Thrombosis and anticoagulation disorders

• Factor V Leiden
• Prothrombin gene mutation
• Protein C deficiency
• Protein S deficiency
• Antithrombin deficiency
• Stroke
• Thrombosis

Autoimmune blood cell disorders

• Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP)
• Autoimmune hemolytic anemia
• Evans syndrome

Bone marrow failure syndromes

• Aplastic anemia
• Congenital amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia
• Diamond-Blackfan anemia
• Dyskeratosis congenita
• Fanconi anemia
• Schwachman-Diamond syndrome
• Thrombocytopenia absent radius

White blood cell disorders

• White blood cell disorders overview
• Severe congenital neutropenia (Kostmann syndrome)
• Cyclical neutropenia
• Chronic granulomatous disease
• Leukocyte adhesion deficiency
• Myeloperoxidase deficiency

Other blood disorders

• Myelodysplastic syndrome
• Polycythemia/Erythrocytosis