Environmental precautions for patients with chronic neutropenia
Are there any environmental precautions (including those related to diet) that should be followed by patients with chronic neutropenia?
Are there any environmental precautions (including those related to diet) that should be followed by patients with chronic neutropenia?
What should be the diagnostic approach to lymphopenia of undetermined etiology?
Is chronic neutropenia an indication for specific immunization?
What are the indications for antimicrobial prophylaxis in neutropenia unrelated to cancer? Which drugs should be used?
When should an autoimmune cause of neutropenia be suspected? What tests should be ordered then?
Other than testing for antiphospholipid antibodies, should thrombophilia testing be performed in patients with a history of recurrent miscarriages or stillbirth?
In what situations should patients with no history of thrombosis be tested for thrombophilia? Should the testing be performed in women planning hormonal contraception or menopausal hormone therapy?
Should homocysteine and MTHFR polymorphism testing be performed in patients with suspected thrombophilia?
In what situations should we perform additional testing for thrombophilia in patients without antiphospholipid syndrome and without any of the 5 basic congenital thrombophilias? What tests to order? Should they include the activity of coagulation factors VIII, IX, and X, and evaluation of the fibrinolytic system (TAFI, plasminogen, PAI-1 activity)?
If you were to name the 3 most important recent advances in hematology that are relevant for everyday practice, what would they be?