Pediatric Oncology

Bone Marrow Failure

Questions discussed in this category

How would you work up a mildly neutropenic patient (ANC >800) with family history of neutropenia and personal history of occasional mouth sore?

What are indications to order gene mutation studies (e.g. ELANE) and how would it help the patient?

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When would you consider transplant for a patient with a bone marrow failure syndrome (FA, DC, etc.)?

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How would you manage a patient with severe aplastic anemia and a large PNH clone?

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Would you stop current immunosuppressive therapy or delay starting immunosuppressive therapy in a patient with aplastic anemia who has been infected with COVID-19?

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Papers discussed in this category

Genetic epidemiology, 2016-09

Association Between Absolute Neutrophil Count and Variation at TCIRG1: The NHLBI Exome Sequencing Project.

American journal of hematology, 2019-03

Neutropenia in the age of genetic testing: Advances and challenges.

Blood, 2021 Jan 07

When non-Whiteness becomes a condition.

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