Let E and F be noncommutative operator spaces affiliated with semifinite von Neumann algebras M 1 and M 2 , respectively. We establish a noncommutative version of Abramovich's theorem [1], which provides the general form of normal order-preserving linear operators T : E into −→ F having the disjointness preserving property. As an application, we obtain a noncommutative Huijsmans-Wickstead theorem [43].By establishing the disjointness preserving property for an order-preserving isometry T : E → F from a noncommutative symmetrically ∆-normed (in particular, quasi-normed) space into another, we obtain the existence of a Jordan *monomorphism from M 1 into M 2 and the general form of this isometry, which extends and complements a number of existing results such as [12, Theorem 1], [64, Corollary 1], [69, Theorem 2] and [15, Theorem 3.1]. In particular, we fully resolve the case when F is the predual of M 2 and other untreated cases in [75].2010 Mathematics Subject Classification. 46B04, 46L52, 46A16.