Red blood cell (RBC) transfusions play an important role in supportive care in children and neonates with cancer. However, in current clinical practice, evidence-based recommendations are lacking on when to administer prophylactic RBC transfusions. To address this gap, a clinical practice guideline (CPG)...
These guidelines represent a GRADE-method revision of the recommendations produced by the Italian Society of Hemapheresis and Cell Manipulation (SIDEM) and the Italian Transplant Group for Bone Marrow Transplantation, Hematopoietic Stem Cells and Cell Therapy (GITMO) in 2013. Since 2013 several studies h...
Shanthikumar, Shivanthan;
Gower, William A;
Srinivasan, Saumini;
Rayment, Jonathan H;
Robinson, Paul D;
Bracken, Jennifer;
Stone, Anne;
Das, Shailendra;
Barochia, Amisha;
Charbek, Edward;
Tamae-Kakazu, Maximiliano;
Reardon, Erin E;
Abts, Matthew;
Blinman, Thane;
Calvo, Charlotte;
Cheng, Pi Chun;
Cole, Theresa S;
Cooke, Kenneth R;
Davies, Stella M;
De, Aliva;
Gross, Jessica;
Mechinaud, Francoise;
Sheshadri, Ajay;
Siddaiah, Roopa;
Teusink-Cross, Ashley;
Towe, Christopher T;
Walkup, Laura L;
Yanik, Gregory A;
Bergeron, Anne;
Casey, Alicia;
Deterding, Robin R;
Liptzin, Deborah R;
Schultz, Kirk R;
Iyer, Narayan P;
Goldfarb, Samuel.
Many children undergo allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) for the treatment of malignant and nonmalignant conditions. Unfortunately, pulmonary complications occur frequently post-HSCT, with bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) being the most common noninfectious pulmonary complic...
Evidence-based recommendations on maribavir (Livtencity) for cytomegalovirus infection in adults after transplant.
Commercial arrangement
There is a simple discount patient access scheme for maribavir. NHS organisations can get details on the Commercial Access and Pricing (CAP) Portal. Non-NHS organisat...
The Practice Guidelines Committee of the American Society of Transplantation and Cellular Therapy (ASTCT) partnered with its Transplant Infectious Disease Special Interest Group (TID-SIG) to update its 2009 compendium-style infectious disease guidelines for hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). A new...
The Practice Guidelines Committee of the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy partnered with its Transplant Infectious Disease Special Interest Group to update its 2009 compendium-style infectious diseases guidelines for the care of hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) recipients. A n...
The purpose of this guideline is to maximise the safety of patients who need haemopoietic stem cell transplantation and make the best use of NHS resources, while protecting staff from infection. It will also enable services to match the capacity for transplantation to patient needs if services become lim...
To develop an evidence-based clinical practice guideline for the prevention of oral mucositis in children (0-18 years) receiving treatment for cancer or undergoing haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT).
The Mucositis Prevention Guideline Development Group was interdisciplinary and included in...
Sarmati, L;
Andreoni, M;
Antonelli, G;
Arcese, W;
Bruno, R;
Coppola, N;
Gaeta, G. B;
Galli, M;
Girmenia, C;
Mikulska, M;
Pane, F;
Perno, C. F;
Picardi, M;
Puoti, M;
Rambaldi, A;
Svicher, V;
Taliani, G;
Gentile, G.
SCOPE: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection reactivation is associated with high morbidity and mortality in patients with haematologic malignancy and/or haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). However, information on this issue is limited. The scope of this position paper is to provide recommendati...
A review of the British Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (BSHI) "Guideline for selection and HLA matching of related, adult unrelated donors and umbilical cord units for haematopoietic progenitor cell transplantation" was undertaken by a BSHI appointed writing committee. Literature searc...
