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A Quality Improvement Initiative to Standardize Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia Prophylaxis in Pediatric Patients With Solid Tumors

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Pediatric patients with extracranial solid tumors (ST) receiving chemotherapy are at an increased risk for Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP). However, evidence guiding prophylaxis practices in this population is limited. A PJP‐related fatality at our institution highlighted inconsistent prescribing approaches and concerns about
Kriti Kumar, Denise M. Connolly, Ellen Kellington, Elyse Zelunka, Karla Kerrigan, Furqan Shaikh, Paul C. Nathan, Meredith S. Irwin, Sarah Cohen‐Gogo   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Aplastic Crisis as Primary Manifestation of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus [PDF]

, 2011
Aplastic crisis is an unusual feature of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). We report the case of a 54-year-old woman presenting with both (extravascular) Coombs-positive hemolytic anemia and laboratory findings of bone marrow hyporegeneration with ...
Alger M, Andreas Völkl, Bailey FA, Brooks, Chute JP, Espinoza JL, Feng X, Fuat S. Oduncu, Hinterberger-Fischer M, Hirano N, Hirano N, Mestanza-Peralta M, Michael Bäuerle, Pavithran K, Philipp Baumann, Ralf Schmidmaier, Singh NP, Tagoe C, Takamatsu H, Tan EM, Torok-Storb B, Wolach B, Young NS, Young NS   +23 more
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Direct vascular channels connect skull bone marrow and the brain surface enabling myeloid cell migration

Nature Neuroscience, 2018
Innate immune cells recruited to inflammatory sites have short life spans and originate from the marrow, which is distributed throughout the long and flat bones.
F. Herisson, V. Frodermann, G. Courties, David Rohde, Yuan Sun, K. Vandoorne, G. Wojtkiewicz, G. Masson, Claudio Vinegoni, Jiwon Kim, Dong-Eog Kim, R. Weissleder, F. Swirski, M. Moskowitz, M. Nahrendorf   +14 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Personalizing the Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Fellowship: Adapting Training for the Next Generation

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The pediatric hematology‐oncology fellowship training curriculum has not substantially changed since its inception. The first year of training is clinically focused, and the second and third years are devoted to scholarship. However, this current structure leaves many fellows less competitive in the current job market, resulting in ...
Scott C. Borinstein, Melissa J. Rose, Scott Moerdler, Richard Ho   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Clinicohematological and cytogenetic profile of myelodysplastic syndromes in Pakistan-compare and contrast

Molecular Cytogenetics, 2017
Background Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are clonal stem cell disorders exhibiting cytopenias, ineffective hematopoiesis and morphological dysplasia. Bone marrow cytogenetics, inspite of being incorporated as mandatory tool in diagnosis are done less ...
Nida Anwar, Aisha Arshad, Muhammad Nadeem, Sana Khurram, Naveena Fatima, Sumaira Sharif, Saira Shan, Tahir Shamsi   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Pediatric, Adolescent, and Young Adult Patients With Osteosarcoma: Local Control Outcomes With Dosimetric Analysis

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Osteosarcoma is a radioresistant tumor that may benefit from stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for locoregional control in metastatic/recurrent disease. We report institutional practice patterns, outcomes, toxicity, and failures in osteosarcoma patients treated with SBRT.
Jenna Kocsis, Shauna R. Campbell, Jonathan Jang, Eashwar Somasundaram, Chandana A. Reddy, Jacob G. Scott, Lilyana Angelov, Peter M. Anderson, Matteo Trucco, Zachary Burke, Lukas Nystrom, Nathan Mesko, Anthony Magnelli, Erin S. Murphy   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Autoimmune Cytopenias Developing Late Post Alemtuzumab-Based Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation: Presentation of Short Case Series from a Transplant Center

Cell Transplantation, 2020
Stem cell transplantation remains the curative option for many patients with hematological malignancies. The long-term effects of these treatments on the patients and their immune systems have been extensively investigated, but there remains a paucity of
Rebecca Lloyd, Emmanouil Nikolousis, Bhuvan Kishore, Richard Lovell, Paneesha Shankara, Nervana Abou Zeid, Claire Horgan, Alkistis Kyra Panteliadou, Graham McIlroy, Evgenia Xenou, Maria Kaparou, Kathleen Holder, Vidhya Murthy, Alexandros Kanellopoulos   +13 more
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An effective treatment in Erdheim Chester disease: vemurafenib: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2023
Background Erdheim Chester disease (ECD) is a rare disease with multisystemic involvement in the group of non-langerhans cell histiocytosis. Although nearly 100 years have passed since its definition, the number of cases reported all over the world is ...
Ersin Bozan, Tahir Darçın, Samet Yaman, Tuğçe Nur Yiğenoğlu, Merih Kızıl Çakar, Mehmet Sinan Dal, Fevzi Altuntaş   +6 more
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Changes in Body Composition in Children and Young People Undergoing Treatment for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ongoing evidence indicates increased risk of sarcopenic obesity among children and young people (CYP) with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), often beginning early in treatment, persisting into survivorship. This review evaluates current literature on body composition in CYP with ALL during and after treatment.
Lina A. Zahed, Raquel Revuelta Iniesta, Mary Fewtrell, Julie Lanigan, Breeana Gardiner, Graeme O'Connor   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Milieu-adopted in vitro and in vivo differentiation of mesenchymal tissues derived from different adult human CD34-negative progenitor cell clones [PDF]

, 2005
Adult mesenchymal stem cells with multilineage differentiation potentially exist in the bone marrow, but have also been isolated from the peripheral blood.
Huss, R., Hutter, J., Krombach, F., Moosmann, S., Moser, C.   +4 more
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