#Blooducation

Lymphoma (especially high grade lymphoma) is very responsive to steroids - for this reason, in any patient with suspected lymphoma, avoid steroids where possible as this reduces sensitivity of PET-CT
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1/12. Red blood cell (RBC) antibody tweetorial. There are over 700 known RBC antigens. Every time someone is exposed to a red cell antigen that they don’t express, usually through
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Haematology, Brains & Med. History - A case-based MCQ Quiz. #haematology #blooducation #FRCPathA 75 yo man prev. treated for a haem malig. 2 yrs ago presents w/ 4 wks of
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1/ Antidote news! There has been promise recently regarding antidotes being developed for DOACs. Before we get onto that, a quick summary of what we have so far... 2/ In
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Hi, let’s discuss #ITP! Pls respond the poll and see the thread below. #bloodbank #blooducation How comfortable you feel with a platelet of 1 thou/uL in a case of ITP.
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MaternalFetalMedicine #Blooducation conference. Topic: #TTP in pregnancy. We focused on thrombotic microangiopathic hemolytic anemias & shear wonder of the #schistocyte. Rock, Paper, Scissors, Shoot. Let's recap on the some of
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I was on call for NHSBT last week and have discussed lots of patients for whom we have agreed to transfuse granulocytes (GTX). But what are they, when do we
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