Infectious Disease

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Questions discussed in this category



Is parasitemia >10% and severe hemolysis with Hb less than 7 enough to initiate this?

At the time of count recovery or do you continue it throughout induction and consolidation?

E.g., for a patient with myeloma, s/p induction therapy, and high-dose chemotherapy, followed by autologous rescue with inappropriate antibody respons...

Do you just use antibiotic prophylaxis if therapy is started prior to meningococcal vaccination?

Infection is not part of the criteria for starting treatment both in UpToDate and in NCCN guidelines. 

Does treatment with B-cell depletion and/or negative anti-spike antibody status despite COVID mRNA vaccination influence your decision?

Can experts comment on fungal pneumonia risk with individual BTK inhibitors as seen in ELEVATE-RR and whether this impacts their management decisions?

Does your recommendation differ between autologous and allogeneic transplants? Does your recommendation differ in allogeneic transplant recipients wh...

Is it at neutrophil recovery, at documentation of CR on bone marrow biopsy, or is there a different point in time?


Papers discussed in this category


The New England journal of medicine, 2007-01-25

Biology of blood and marrow transplantation : journal of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation, 2011-03

Seminars in hematology, 2013-07

J Clin Oncol, 2021 Jul 26

Clin Microbiol Infect, 2018 Feb 07

Urology, 1982-09

Biology of blood and marrow transplantation : journal of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation, 2009-03

Clin Infect Dis, 2005 Jan 21

Pediatr Transplant, 2014 Sep 08

J Clin Oncol, 2021 Apr 30

Pediatr Infect Dis J, 2014 Nov

Bone Marrow Transplant, 2006 Mar

PET Clin, 2020 Feb 11

Rheumatology (Oxford), 2022 Jul 22

Journal of medical case reports, 2014 Mar 04

Journal of oncology practice, 2018-09-04

Leukemia & lymphoma, 2022 Mar 15

Hematology. American Society of Hematology. Education Program, 2020 Dec 04

Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.), 2023 Jul 24

Lupus, 2014 Jul 30

MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2024 Sep 12

The American journal of medicine, 2024 Mar 16