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)
• Congenital dyserythropoietic anemia
• Congenital sideroblastic anemia
• G6PD deficiency
• Hemochromatosis
• Hemolytic disease of the newborn
• Hemolytic anemia
• Iron deficiency anemia
• Iron-refractory iron deficiency anemia (IRIDA)
• Megaloblastic anemia (including pernicious anemia)
• Pyruvate kinase (PK) deficiency
• Sickle cell disease
• Spherocytosis
• Thalassemia

White blood cell disorders

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

Bone marrow failure syndromes

• Aplastic anemia
• Congenital amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia
• Diamond-Blackfan anemia
• Dyskeratosis congenita
• Fanconi anemia
• Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS)
• Pearson syndrome
• Severe congenital neutropenia (Kostmann syndrome)
• Shwachman-Diamond syndrome
• Thrombocytopenia absent radius

Bleeding disorders

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

Thrombosis and anticoagulation disorders

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

Autoimmune blood cell disorders

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

Other blood disorders

• Myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs)
• Polycythemia