Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Infectious Disease   

Questions discussed in this category



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

Chemotherapy is associated with acquiring C diff colitis. Does immunotherapy share that same risk and necessitate ruling out infection prior to anti-d...

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

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

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

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

Blood, 2015-10-29

Seminars in hematology, 2013-07

Ann Oncol, 2021 Mar 18

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

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

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2019-05-30

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2020 Aug 22

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2020 Oct 23

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2020 Aug 22

BMJ open, 2023 Sep 13

Biology of blood and marrow transplantation : journal of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation, 2019 Jun 27

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2018-05-17

The Journal of infection, 2011-11

Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics, 2006 Nov 15

Journal of tropical medicine, 2017 Feb 26

Lupus, 2014 Jul 30

MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2024 Sep 12

American journal of clinical oncology, 2021 Aug 01

Annals of gastroenterology, 2022 Jun 02

Melanoma research, 2023 Mar 27