Had my 1st alloHCT recipient die from COVID-19 yesterday. Young but vulnerable from ongoing tx for relapsed AML. Got it from a family member at low risk for negative outcome...who got it from someone else at low risk. This is why we say #wearamask even if you’re healthy yourself.
My greatest success story: 5.5yrs out from allo for prim refract monosomal karyo AML using TBI prep, treated >3yrs w pred/siro/ECP for sev-ext cGVHD, now 35wks pregnant with a medically assisted pregnancy using a donor oocyte!! And an absolute delight!❤️ (Posted with permission.)
#ASH20#leusm Wei: We are all excited to have new therapeutic options in AML, but the overall message I get from this money slide is that we have, for the most part, made rather modest progress, sadly.
My thoughts exactly. He’s probably getting convalescent antibodies today and would get remdesivir/dex at earliest possible indication of progressive lower airway disease. His course will absolutely not be representative of what the public at large faces.
Academic medical centers are headed for a staffing crisis. Too many faculty are burned out, feel unsupported, & there are other options. I’m not going anywhere, but have heard about too many w imminent changes afoot to not be shook. And that’s just the docs. RNs are bailing too.
All of this assumes the diagnosis is real. I still hold onto *some* skepticism that this is anything more than wagging the dog to distract from the chaos accompanying the terminal weeks of his administration.
Was texted this photo from the apheresis unit. Patient collecting PBMC for CAR-T production. This bag does not contain PBMC. Tell me the lab I ordered and guess the value. 😅
Bravo!
South Korea 🇰🇷 has set up ‘phone booths’ that can test people for the coronavirus in just 7 minutes. The country has earned praise for its mass testing amid the Covid19 pandemic.
I lost one of my favorite patients of all time today. :( Though much younger, she taught me so much. Some face their adversity w bravery I know I’d never muster... It both inspires and breaks me to bear witness to such struggles. None of what we do is easy. Some of it is harder.
Not so fast. Spleens exist to satisfy hematologists — by recommending their removal. Appendices exist to give surgeons a starter procedure to practice — so they can grow up do the big ops, like laparoscopic splenectomies in patients with platelet counts in the single digits.
When you get to have the one & only @RahulBanerjeeMD on service, it’s a gift. I told him he’s the boss this wk, and I’m here for moral support — he sent this pic. 😂 Very proud of Rahul and know he’s going to be a HUGE superstar @SeattleCCA when he starts his Asst Prof-ship soon!
