Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Univ. of Pittsburgh SOM, @ChildrensPGH @PedsHemeOncPGH (Tweets/opinions are my own)
🎅Have a Howelly-Jolly Christmas🎄
A festive finding in the blood of an asplenic patient 💉
A Howell–Jolly body is a cytopath finding where remnants of DNA are present in circulating erythrocytes. Normally these cells are removed by the spleen!
#histology#anatomy#pathology
Ronnie Ekeroth, CRNP, @ChildrensPgh legend and @PedsHemeOncPGH provider, mentor, and icon was discharged from 9B to retirement today after 43 years of service! Congrats and enjoy the most well deserved adventures in this new chapter, Ronnie! All of CHP will miss you immensely!
As part of the NAPAAC Acquired Aplastic Anemia Working Group, I contributed to this consensus statement, and I am very happy to have it published and out in the world.
https://t.co/ckbSrX4GR8
F-HLH can be devastating & it’s my honor to share our experience w/ a very sad case, in hopes of helping recognize & manage future patients. “Systemic and Nodular Hyperinflammation in a Patient
with Refractory Familial Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis 2” https://t.co/YeQTawzqs6
“F-18-FDG PET/CT is vital in the evaluation of LCH lesions given its ability to detect LCH lesions not detectable on conventional imaging modalities, as well as its ability to distinguish metabolically active from inactive disease.”
Five UPMC employees were the first in Pittsburgh to receive the COVID-19 vaccine today.
The state health dept says 83 hospitals will receive direct shipments of the vaccine from Pfizer this week.
More from @Sarah_Boden & me for @905wesa:
https://t.co/gj3YzjvL3F