Hematology News

Several organizations have collaborated to develop clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of von Willebrand disease.

Recent innovations in the management of renal cell carcinoma have helped clinicians preserve the kidney during surgery and with it, kidney function for their patients. Ketan K. Badani, MD, professor of urology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital and director of the comprehensive kidney cancer program at Mount Sinai Health System in New York, spearheaded one of these advances: the first assistant sparing technique for robotic partial nephrectomy. In an interview with Healio, Badani spoke about the advantages of this technique, the limitations with current robotic nephrectomy, how he handles patient education and more.

Patients with moderate-to-severe liver disease demonstrated a lower risk for venous thromboembolism compared with those without liver disease, according to a population-based study.

A whole genome-based approach to antigen matching of patients with blood donors may represent a novel method to improve blood transfusion outcomes, according to study results published in The Lancet Haematology.

The FDA approved patisiran infusion for the treatment of adults with polyneuropathy caused by hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis.

Women with venous thromboembolism demonstrated an acute decrease in physical function compared with women without VTE, according to study results.

Compression hosiery improved quality of life and appeared cost-effective for the acute phase between diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis and application of elastic compression stockings, according to results of a substudy of the IDEAL DVT study.

A pediatric hematologist is one of three finalists for the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health’s inaugural Trailblazer Prize for Clinician-Scientists.

Rivaroxaban increased risk for cardiac events compared with warfarin among patients with high-risk antiphospholipid syndrome, according to results of a randomized, open-label, multicenter, noninferiority study published in Blood.

Perioperative red blood cell transfusions appeared associated with new or progressive venous thromboembolism in the postoperative setting, according to study results.